Chapter 432 Harvest [Subscription Request]

The sun is rising and the morning glow is like a rainbow.

The leather scroll that Jia Xu showed Cao Cao was an excerpt of information that his spies had been gathering for some time:

"The Xianbei sent a team to the southwest. Their purpose and destination are unknown."

The first message was delivered by the giant salamander.

The second message comes from the Western Regions:
"There is a fur caravan entering Moruo City from the north, transporting furs to the west. Given the size of their team, they want to make a profit from the furs, but the cost of traveling thousands of miles will greatly reduce their profits, so their behavior is suspicious."

"The team finally appeared in Shule, then continued westward and lost its trace."

Cao Wei's spies have not yet been fully deployed beyond the borders further west into the Western Regions, so they cannot detect the situation outside the Western Regions.

However, based on the existing intelligence, a lot of things can be analyzed.

Putting these two clues together, Jia Xu obviously discovered the problem:

“The Xianbei’s hasty migration northwards shows their internal instability.

Since the Xianbei dare not fight, we can only rely on external forces to relieve the pressure from the Wei Dynasty."

The Xianbei wanted to find strong reinforcements, and combined with the current news, the answer was obvious!
To the west of the Western Regions, the Dayuezhi, who had fought against the Xiongnu together with the Xianbei, were the help that the Xianbei wanted.

The Kushans were undoubtedly the most powerful neighbor west of China.

Director Jia said: "I will focus on exploring news west of the Western Regions in the future."

Zhen Mi, wearing a cobalt blue long dress and shallow-cut embroidered silk shoes, came in from outside the hall and said with a bright smile, "Your Majesty." She then greeted Jia Xu with courtesy.

"Luo Xi, go get the map of the Western Region."

Zhen Mi agreed and quickly went behind a row of bookshelves.

The map of the Western Regions and even the countries further west was gradually completed by Cao Wei's spies who traveled west with the troops after the Silk Road was reopened.

Zhen Mi soon came back with several maps. She flattened the maps with her fair little hands and placed them in front of Cao Cao.

Jia Xu also looked at the terrain on the map.

Huang Zhong has returned to the Western Regions to lead his troops.

The Xiahou brothers are still stationed in Hexi, while to the north are Ma Chao and Pang De.

Ma Chao's father, Ma Teng, has been transferred back to Yecheng to take up his post.

"If the Xianbei want to incite the Kushans to send troops, it is necessary to make some adjustments along the Hexi and Western Regions."

Cao Cao and Jia Xu discussed in a low voice and called Guo Jia and Xun You over.

Several people held an impromptu military meeting in the study.

Jia Xu's ability in sorting out intelligence was very impressive, and he was always able to anticipate the enemy's intentions.

He can detect any abnormality as soon as the enemy makes the slightest movement.

After a few people met, they dispersed.

Before leaving, Jia Xu looked at the map of the southeastern part of the Western Regions. After seeing the high terrain of Tibet, he said:
“This plateau area is sparsely populated, but there are many rivers and a well-developed water system.

Hexi in Wei's territory, as well as all parts of the Western Regions, are water-scarce areas, and there is not much land that can be effectively cultivated.

If we can bring water from the plateau down and use it for our own benefit, it will solve a big problem.”

Cao Cao laughed dumbly.

In the southeast of Tibet, there are many large rivers crisscrossing each other.

Including the Yarlung Zangbo River, which is the upper source of the Ganges River in India.

In later generations, people did consider cutting off the Yarlung Zangbo River and diverting the water into the Canglan River, through Shaanxi, Hexi, and finally into the arid and water-scarce Western Regions.

Turn the large amount of drought-stricken and water-deficient wasteland in northwest China into fertile fields.

The areas that were previously short of water will no longer be short of water.

Doing so will benefit China but deal a heavy blow to India.

The Ganges, which they regard as a holy river, will be dammed and the water source will be blocked from upstream.

Unfortunately, the implementation of the relevant river diversion project was faced with many obstacles, and even after a thousand years, it has not been fully implemented.

Jia Xu just casually proposed an idea.

After he left.

Cao Cao sank his thoughts into the other end and connected with the totem dragon.

In Kunlun, the Totem True Dragon reunited with the Taoist Master and reopened the huge gate of Kunlun Ruins.

During the months when Cao Cao was dealing with the affairs of the founding of the country, Dao Zun did not stop exploring Kunlun Ruins.

All the Buddhists who were used by him were consumed during this period of time.

When Cao Cao's thoughts came to him, the Taoist Master and the Totem Dragon were standing at the end of the ancient road that extended into the mountain after the gate of Kunlun Ruins was opened.

The thick fog that had been rolling on both sides of the ancient road has now dissipated after several months.

Standing at the end of the ancient road and looking down, a large lake shrouded in white mist appeared at the bottom of the mountain.

There seemed to be something in the lake, like an island or a palace. Strange light was flashing and the details could not be seen clearly.

"When did the fog in the belly of this mountain disappear?"

Cao Cao borrowed the totem dragon and asked the Taoist master.

"After you called back the dragon soul, I changed the direction of my exploration and entered the mountain again from the entrance dug by the Buddhists on the side wall of the mountain to explore in the mist.

On the day you founded your kingdom, the mist in the mountains receded like the tide and only dissipated after ten or six months.

“The restrictions in Kunlun Ruins may have some kind of operating cycle, which has led to the changes here.

Have you noticed that the murderous intent and danger you felt when you came in last time have weakened after the fog has dissipated? "

Dao Zun said:
“Before you came back, I tried to get close to the big lake down there.

The center of the lake should be where we saw a dragon figure appearing before, with the dragon head carrying the coffin!"

After Dao Zun finished speaking, he turned around and looked at the bronze boat beside him.

After it was brought to Kunlun Ruins by the totem dragon, the patterns on its body flickered and rippled, and there seemed to be some unknown changes.

"Let's go explore the end of this road first, the golden jade disk where the immortal left his words."

The Taoist Master boarded the boat, mobilized his strength, and approached where the jade disc was.

From the end of the ancient road, the distance of a hundred feet to the Immortal Gold Jade Disk was that Dao Zun had used the Three Emperors Coffin before, but he still failed repeatedly, blocked by a sudden danger. But this time when he approached again, it was just as he said, the restrictions in Kunlun Ruins were weakening.

He was traveling on a boat. The bronze sun on the bow was gleaming with patterns and shining in all directions. He approached the fairy gold and jade disc smoothly.

As we got closer, there was a surprising surge of pressure.

The fonts on the wall also changed.

Dao Zun suddenly stopped moving forward.

There was actually a person who vaguely appeared under the words on the jade disk. He stood in the air with his back to the Taoist Master, pointed his finger in front of the barrier, and wrote the words on the jade disk in a flamboyant manner:
"Here, I see the true appearance of heaven and earth, open the door to the Kunlun Pantheon Palace, and fly away!"

The figure had one hand behind his back, his clothes were strange and ancient, and he had an indescribable demeanor.

After he wrote the words, they slowly disappeared.

Dao Zun and Cao Cao, who saw this scene through the totem dragon, were both deeply moved.

That figure does not really exist.

Rather, they are the words on the immortal gold and jade disk, carrying an imprint of energy.

Dao Zun, the approach of the totem dragon caused the words on the jade disk to change, and then his figure was reflected, repeating the process of his carving that year.

"Did you see that?"

"When he wrote the last stroke of his hand, he gently stroked the jade disk and pressed something into it. It seemed to be a jade shaft and a bronze object!"

While Dao Zun was talking to Cao Cao, he pushed the boat again and continued to approach the jade disk.

At this time, a servant came to Cao Cao's study to report that Taishi Ci had arrived.

Cao Cao sent someone to call Taishi Ci.

The other generals have already gone to their respective defense zones to command their troops.

But there was no war in Wei at the moment, so Taishi Ci stayed in Yecheng and did not move.

Cao Cao planned to arrange him to strengthen the garrison in the Western Regions.

Cao Cao temporarily withdrew the idea of ​​paying attention to Dao Zun.

When Taishi Ci was ordered to leave, Dao Zun was still investigating the jade disk.

But Cao Cao was sitting on the chair, frowning.

Just now, when he saw the human figure emerging on the jade disk through the totem dragon, he made a surprising discovery.

Before the figure disappeared, he turned sideways and was about to step into the void, revealing a profile.

Looking from the perspective of the Totem Dragon, that profile... is exactly the same as that of the Taoist Master.

Cao Cao pondered for a long time but still couldn't figure it out.

Is it that the figure is too blurry, causing a visual error, or is it that the person who left the words is the Taoist Master?
If the person who left the message was the Taoist priest, that would be really weird.

Cao Cao stood up and walked to the window.

A bird flew into the sky from a tree in sight.

Cao Cao integrated a trace of the idea of ​​the separation of spirit and soul into its body, merged with the bird, and controlled it to fly out of the city.

In a blink of an eye, birds arrived at the outskirts of the city.

June.

In the fields, the golden wheat is being harvested.

People harvesting wheat were running back and forth between the ridges of the fields, and it was a very lively scene.

Birds fly south, and along the road there are golden wheat waves.

Go south from Yecheng.

Soon you will be able to see the rushing Yellow River, like a giant dragon lying across the earth.

There is an old saying that when the Yellow River is calm, the world is at peace.

As early as eight or nine years ago, Cao Wei had focused on the management and dredging of the banks of the Yellow River. Two new canals were dug and as many as four old canals were cleared for irrigation.

Therefore, in recent years, crops on both sides of the strait have been growing better and better.

Cao Cao then withdrew his thoughts from the bird's body and instead concentrated his thoughts on the body of another falcon.

The falcon was flying along the coast of the East China Sea thousands of miles away, flapping its wings.

The water below was blue and the sky was clear.

Two large ships and several medium-sized ships were docked near the coast, and teams of convicts were driven ashore.

They were forced laborers captured from Japan and Korea.

These people will go northwest from the coast to contribute to the construction of the Grand Canal.

The two ships that transported the forced laborers were nearly half the size of the Da Wei.

But it is a rare large ship in the world today.

They were two troop transport ships that Cao Wei had prepared with all its strength and had just launched.

Cao Cao used falcons to survey various parts of China.

In the direction of the border between Youzhou and Qingzhou, there are tens of thousands of people dredging and excavating the river.

The initial construction of the Grand Canal project has begun.

Chen Qun and Dong Zhao went to the site to supervise the work in person last month.

Cao Cao thought to himself: The biggest advantage of having the experience of later generations is that we won’t go astray, as many things have been verified by later generations.

By ensuring that there are no mistakes in the direction, you can save countless resources and trial-and-error costs.

In the afternoon, he dealt with various matters in the study, and took the time to take a look at the progress of Dao Zun in Kunlun Ruins.

Kunlun Ruins is one of the most magical places in the world.

Buddhists have explored for a hundred years and found nothing.

The Taoist Master and the Totem Dragon worked together, based on the Buddhist knowledge, but it still took several months before they made any progress and successfully approached the jade disk.

The Taoist priest gently stroked the jade disk with his palm and slowly pulled something out of it.

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