Chapter 430 The World Seeks Talents, the Great Wei Treasury [Subscription Request]

Cao Cao held the scroll in his hand and read its contents.

The realm of the mythological realm itself will vary depending on the degree of interaction with the heaven and earth, and there are several stages such as early, middle and late.

However, Cao Cao has external assistance, which allows him to correspond his practice to the rise and fall of the country, which actually weakens the limitations of his realm.

The greatest benefit of entering the mythical realm is not the increase in strength.

Rather, they are some mythological military strategies and magical powers that require reaching the mythological realm and being deeply in tune with heaven and earth before they can be used.

Cao Cao had previously broken through the mythical threshold, and after this period of sedimentation, he has completely stabilized his realm.

His innate military strategies, his listening to the battlefield, his insight into cultural context, as well as his supernatural powers such as concealing the truth and secretly marching through Chencang, all changed accordingly and reached a new level.

Cao Cao looked at the scroll and put it aside.

This scroll was left by an emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, a descendant of Emperor Wu.

In the scroll, he said that Emperor Wu had performed Fengshan many times in his later years, with the aim of pursuing the throne of the human emperor that surpassed the emperor, and even looking for the direction of imperial immortality.

It is said that after the Shang Dynasty, the highest position in the world was Nine Five, and there was no Nine Nine Human Emperor anymore…

Given Emperor Wu's ambitions, it was normal for him to not be satisfied with being the Son of Heaven and to seek the legendary throne of the Human Emperor and to want immortality.

But he must have failed, otherwise he would not have been buried.

Cao Cao glanced outside the palace.

Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun integrated the national destiny. After successfully breaking through, they needed to recuperate for several days before the end.

The qi of the other people, after being in harmony with heaven and earth to a certain degree, stagnated.

Wei established its country through military power and pacified the troubled times, so the military generals were promoted first and broke through the mythological barriers.

In terms of cultural context, it was still far from being prosperous as it was the beginning of peace in troubled times, and it lacked some luck.

Cao Cao brought his thoughts back to the present. With a mythical general under his command, he would have a different way of fighting.

His eyes fell on the map again, looking around.

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In the heart of the Xianbei, deep in the grassland.

Afu Yu and a few others stood in front of a large tent.

It is late March and the harsh winter is over.

There were many Xianbei tribes, and they began to migrate northward.

Looking north from where they were, they saw tents carried by horses and carriages, various tribes driving cattle and sheep, children, women and children following the team, and the migrating team stretched for several miles.

Beside Afu were several of his disciples.

One of the women was wearing a white fur coat, which made her skin look whiter than snow, and her eyes, which were distinctly black and white, were bright and moving.

She and several others were looking at the tribe's migration northward.

There is an inexplicable feeling of desolation.

"After just one defeat, we migrated and gave up the most lush pastures... I'm afraid many tribes will be dissatisfied."

The speaker was a strong middle-aged man wearing a robe made of a whole wolf skin, with a wolf head on his shoulder.

He is the leader of a medium-sized tribe and a registered disciple of Afu Yu, and has always been known for his bravery.

He strongly disagreed with the migration to the north.

The white-fur girl Bu Liugu asked, "Wanqi Gu, are you questioning our master?"

“Although it was only a defeat, it was a great defeat.

What's more, there had been the disastrous defeat of the Eastern and Western Xianbei before.

Most of the troops we lost were our elite troops, tens of thousands of young and strong men. We moved north not only to guard against the Han people, but also to protect our own people.

Have you ever thought that if you are defeated again, it will be too late to withdraw?

The tribes we annexed back then will no longer obey our orders, and the situation will be out of control."

Wanqi Gu looked at Afu Yu in front of him and did not dare to argue.

Others did not have Afu Yu's practice, and did not know that the Shenzhou in the south had changed several times in just one winter after the founding of the country.

When Afu saw the atmosphere when the Wei Dynasty was founded, he realized that the Wei Dynasty would later sacrifice the country with military force and rely on wars to boost the country's fortunes again.

Earlier today, Afu Yu had another feeling.

To the south, there was a sudden sharp edge in the sky and earth.

Within one winter, the fortunes of the Wei Dynasty rose several times, which was truly shocking to the surrounding ethnic groups.

Moving north at this time would provide a chance to recuperate, and there would be hope of returning south the next day.

Afu Yu slowly clenched his fist and said in a deep voice:
"Bu Liugu, you go ahead."

Bu Liugu agreed, bowed to Afu Yu, then disappeared and headed southwest.

There were a few people around Afu Yu, and they left with her.

Late March.

Cao Cao issued orders to all parties to extend the border of Han territory northward for the second time.

The Xianbei moved northward in order to gain a respite, so we nibbled away at their borders step by step, gradually expanding northward to see how far they could retreat.

Cao Cao drew a long winding line on the map.

No one knows what his new map, which looks like a rooster, means.

The most important change on this map is that the border will move northward in two major steps.

Early April.

Cao Cao issued his third call for talents to the thirteen states in the ten years since he came to power in Yanzhou:
"Since ancient times, the rulers who have been appointed and restored the country have often not found wise men and gentlemen to rule the country with them... Today, the world has just been established, and this is an urgent time to seek wise men!"

The core content of the order to seek talents is just one thing, that is, only the talented are selected and I can use them.

He also encouraged people all over the world to apply what they learned and to join the government to govern.

Now that the country is at peace, the call for talents has been issued and has received a huge response from all over the country.

Where the notice was posted, there was a constant stream of onlookers.

This was the first time to recruit talents after the founding of the country, and its impact was much greater than the previous two times, and it can be said that many followers gathered.

Cao Cao then issued another order to encourage childbirth and business.

At this time, the Wei army occupied Kyushu Island and the Kansai Plain of Honshu Island in Japan. The remaining Japanese troops began to retreat at full strength and dared not fight again.

Like the Xianbei, they retreated to the north of their border and into the mountainous areas.

Lu Su transported the Japanese prisoners in the occupied areas from Kyushu Island to Korea in advance.

They captured two islands from Japan and enslaved seventy to eighty thousand people.

Together with those obtained from the Three Kingdoms of Korea, a total of nearly 150,000 people will be transported in batches to participate in the construction of China and serve as labor.

Internally, Cao Cao, Xun Yu and other ministers, after many discussions, decided to increase the efforts to dig the canal in order to connect the north and the south and boost the internal economy.

Many people in later generations believed that it was during the Sui and Tang dynasties that Yang Guang dug the Grand Canal.

In fact, he built on the foundation of previous dynasties and used the largest amount of manpower to completely connect all sections of the Grand Canal.

China's Grand Canal, with Luoyang as its center, extends north to Zhuojun (now the capital) and south to Yuhang.

This Grand Canal allows trade, resources and culture to flow between the north and the south.

It has a great impact on the strength of a country.

Starting from the Spring and Autumn Period, King Fuchai of Wu dug the Hang Canal connecting the Yangtze River and the Huai River.

Since then, there have been canal projects in every dynasty, with the largest scale being during the Sui Dynasty.

Eventually, the entire line of thousands of miles was completed, which can be said to be a groundbreaking project.

It connects five major water systems, bringing the benefits of "uninterrupted transport of grain and commerce" and "from then on, the world benefited from transportation."

It runs through China's most fertile North China Plain and southeast coast, making a huge contribution to economic and cultural communication.

But a project of this scale is too huge for one generation.

Fifteen thousand slaves is not nearly enough.

Cao Cao thought that if he wanted to let his people rest and recuperate, use them to farm and increase the utilization rate of land, he should not let them participate in heavy labor. The hard labor of opening the river could only be done from outside, and no matter how much, it would not be too much.

In early April, the ground warms up.

While Cao Cao was managing state affairs, he walked around Yecheng and came to Gongzaoying.

The textile machine supervised by Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong has been completed.

Cao Cao came to see it and found that it was basically similar to the Jenny textile machine of later generations, and its use could increase production capacity several times.

This is a leap forward in semi-manual and semi-mechanical development.

Considering the scale of raw material supply in the Han Dynasty, it was enough.

"Your Majesty, these are the new recurve bows and revolver bows!"

Qin Huaji, the master craftsman in charge of Mohist work, came forward after Cao Cao checked the spinning loom, holding two longbows.

One is a recurve bow that adds reverse curvature at both ends of the bow arm to create a stronger pulling force and rebound force, thereby increasing the initial velocity and improving the range and power.

The other is an entry-level compound bow with a revolving wheel installed at the back of the bow arm to change the way the bow is opened.

Cao Cao brought Taishi Ci to try out the bow.

In the breakthroughs a few days ago, Dian Wei, Zhao Yun, and Huang Zhong all broke through successfully.

The training of other generals also went a step further, and Taishi Ci also stood outside the gate of the mythical realm.

He was quite surprised that Cao Cao had asked the workers to make two new types of bows and crossbows.

He only had to pull the bowstring to know the change in bow force.

The compound bow only has two reels added, and its power has not been greatly improved.

However, it greatly reduces the pulling force of drawing the bow, allowing better stability to be maintained when shooting.

Those two wheels transform the tension structure and can effectively improve shooting accuracy.

Taishi Ci was more interested in the recurve bow and took people to the shooting range to try it out.

In the evening, Cao Cao returned to the palace, holding Diao Chan's hand and going to the Wei treasury.

"The cloth shop that my husband asked me to build has made some progress.

Qingyu and I discussed and planned to open cloth shops in Yecheng, Chang'an and Luoyang first." Diao Chan raised her little face and boasted.

“It’s a good idea to build cloth shops along the route from Yecheng to the Western Regions.

But we can take a bigger step and build two more in Hexi, which can be used as a transit point in the future to increase trade to the west, achieving multiple goals at one stroke."

The door of the national treasury was opened. Diao Chan went to the private treasury, while Cao Cao went deep into the national treasury.

There are rows of shelves in the treasury, filled with all kinds of treasures.

Bronzes, tripods, magic weapons, and gold bricks are all dazzling.

Most of the wealth of the Wei Dynasty is in this treasury.

Dian Wei and Xu Chu, who had just returned from Japan, followed beside them.

Cao Cao came to a place and stopped.

Here is the bronze boat brought back from the ancient Shu ruins, on which there is a bronze tree with nine suns hanging, and a gorgeous golden staff.

Cao Cao looked closely at the patterns on the hull, then picked up the golden staff and tried to push it inside to practice.

hum-

The patterns on the golden staff glowed faintly.

But no further changes.

Cao Cao changed his approach and came to the front of the ship with the golden staff.

He touched the bronze tree with nine suns hanging on it with the tip of his golden staff.

When Cao Cao sent his cultivation into the golden staff again, miraculous changes occurred.

The spell patterns on the staff flickered, and a wisp of energy extended to the bronze tree and even the entire ship.

The nine suns on the tree actually lit up.

One of them began to revolve around the bronze tree.

"it is as expected…"

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