Can I get to the other side?

Liu Xie left the propaganda room and came to Qingli Palace.

He was going to the front line tomorrow, and he had something to explain to Zhen Mi.

It is related to whether Lu Bu can quickly strengthen his troops and horses, and it is also related to Zhen's increased support for him.

Zhen Mi was tired from traveling all the way and had already fallen asleep. Liu Xieping retired from the palace maid and came to Zhen Mi's bed.

Zhen Mi, who is sleeping, is still a sleeping beauty.

Her eyelashes are long, her face is rosy, and even her nose looks cute.

Even though she was covered with a quilt, she could still see her exquisite figure.

"My beloved, my beloved, please wake up."

Liu Xie gently pinched Zhen Mi's fair cheeks.

"Well..."

Zhen Mi's sleep was very light and she woke up when Liu Xie touched her.

He opened his eyes drowsily: "Your Majesty?"

At this time, she looked sleepy, looking lazy and weak.

Liu Xie was no longer in the mood to appreciate Zhen Mi's beauty, and said bluntly: "I just received the news from Yuan Shao, and I will leave for Youzhou tomorrow to personally visit the battlefield to supervise the battle."

"What?" Zhen Mi was shocked when she heard this, and she woke up with a look of disbelief on her face, "Your Majesty is the emperor, how dare Yuan Shao let your Majesty come to the battlefield in person!"

Zhen Mi wondered if she hadn't woken up.

The majestic emperor, the co-lord of the nine states, the supreme one in the ninety-five years!

Yuan Shao's ministers dared to let the emperor go to the front line. This was simply treason!

Liu Xie sighed desolately: "The war in Youzhou is at a stalemate. Yuan Shao listened to Ju Shou's advice and asked me to go to the front line in person. Firstly, to boost morale, and secondly, to make Gongsun Zan surrender to the rat weapon."

"I am the emperor, but I am being ordered around by him like this. It is really a shame and a great humiliation!"

Liu Xie said, angrily punching the couch with his fist.

Zhen Mi looked distressed and worried. For an emperor, there is nothing more humiliating than being ordered around by his ministers and even used as a tool to win.

"The battlefield is changing rapidly and is too dangerous. Your Majesty must not go there!"

Zhen Mi had a look of fear on her face. In her eyes, the battlefield was a hell on earth. If Liu Xie went there, he would be in great danger!

Liu Xie said with a complicated expression: "I am now controlled by Yuan Shao. How can I refuse when he lets me go? I just lament that I cannot hold the power, otherwise I will avenge my shame with Yuan Shao's blood!"

Zhen Mi couldn't help but shed tears and said with red eyes: "I am incompetent and cannot share your Majesty's worries..."

"My beloved, please don't cry!" Liu Xie comforted Zhen Mi in his arms, "This is Yuan Shao's fault. What does it have to do with my beloved? My beloved has already helped me a lot by convincing Zhen to help me help the man."

Zhen Mi's long eyelashes were covered with crystal tears, and she looked pitiful.

"I don't want to see His Majesty suffer any injustice, and I want to help His Majesty even more."

Upon seeing this, Liu Xie knew that the heat was almost done.

"My beloved, if you are willing to share the burden for me, there happens to be something you need to do."

After hearing this, Zhen Mi immediately stopped crying, looked at Liu Xie with hopeful eyes, and asked urgently: "What does your Majesty want my concubine to do?"

Liu Xiandao said: "Since Mrs. Zhen has decided to support me, she will support Lu Bu in the future, which will inevitably cost a lot. I don't want to see my beloved concubine's family suffer huge losses, so I thought of some ways to make money and some ways to smelt iron."

The Zhen family is indeed rich, but supporting the army is a bottomless pit of money.

It's okay that Lu Bu doesn't have many soldiers and horses now, but once there are more soldiers and horses in the future and support an army of hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands, how can the Zhen family be able to sustain it?

In addition, if you want to build an elite division, you must have sophisticated weapons and armor. This is a desperate figure.

Therefore, during this period of time, Liu Xie thought about some ways to make some money in this era and the iron smelting technology for Zhen to try. If he succeeded, everyone would be happy, and if he failed, there would be no loss.

"A way to make money?"

Zhen Mi glanced at Liu Xie with some confusion.

The Zhen family is proficient in business. The family's industries are spread across various states, and they even do business with foreign races outside the customs.

Does Liu Xie still have a way to make money for Zhen?

"That's right." Liu Xie nodded and said, "Just a few days ago, I met Emperor Taizu Gao in a dream. Emperor Taizu Gao taught me "Tiangong Kaiwu", which records many ingenious techniques. ”

"For example, the manufacturing method of colored glaze far exceeds today's iron smelting technology, how to use poisonous salt mines to extract edible fine salt... and some completely new styles of ordnance."

In this era, what is the most profitable?

Salt iron, silk, porcelain.

And ordnance!

The method of making money that Liu Xie wants to teach Zhen is related to salt, iron, ordnance, and porcelain.

This is also the best way he can think of to make money in this era.

The first is colored glaze. Ancient natural colored glaze is extremely valuable, even more precious than jade.

The colored glaze that Liu Xie refers to is actually glass.

Liu Xie has seen the manufacturing process of glass, which is very simple.

It just has very high temperature requirements, and I don’t know if Zhen can solve it.

If you can really burn glass, why worry about not making money?

Those powerful families are willing to pay for luxury goods.

Next is salt.

Fine salt and refined salt have always been scarce resources in ancient times and were controlled by the imperial court.

In this troubled era, it is an extremely profitable industry.

Nowadays, most of the salt mines are mined by powerful families, and ordinary people cannot participate at all.

But no one cares about the so-called poisonous salt mines of the ancients.

What Liu Xie provided to Zhen was to refine the toxic salt mines into edible fine salt and refined salt!

Whether it is the manufacturing process of glass, the technology of toxic salt mines or the refining of sea salt, they are all simple.

Liu Xie only needs to explain the basic principles once, and Zhen will try a lot, not to mention whether he can succeed in a short time, but he will definitely meet the requirements in two or three months.

Zhen has glass in her left hand and salt in her right hand. She is not afraid of not making money, and will definitely be more determined to invest in Liu Xie.

At that time, if he was worried about being discovered by Yuan Shao, he could secretly move his family to Xuzhou and be protected by Lu Bu.

In addition to these two ways to make money, there are new types of ordnance and iron smelting technology.

There were already single stirrups in this era, but there were no double stirrups.

As for horseshoes, they had not yet appeared in this era.

Double stirrups can help the cavalry bridge many gaps in equestrian skills and are a powerful piece of equipment to improve the cavalry's combat effectiveness.

Horseshoes can reduce horse wear and tear.

With these two things, the cost of building a cavalry will definitely drop significantly.

The more advanced iron smelting technology is actually a relatively innovative forging iron technology for this era.

With Zhen's background, she can create sharper weapons and harder armor, which will crush the equipment on the battlefield.

Once large-scale equipment is used on Lu Bu's army, it will definitely be a very terrifying thing.

Such an army is not only unparalleled in the world, but at least it is invincible.

Liu Xie had already planned all the above ideas.

Just being trapped in the palace, he couldn't do many things.

Now with Zhen's secret support, these ideas are very likely to work.

It also strengthened Zhen's loyalty afterwards.

"Emperor Taizu Gao taught His Majesty the creation of heavenly craftsmanship!"

"The manufacturing method of colored glaze, the new iron smelting technology, and the technology of extracting poisonous salt ore..."

Zhen Mi didn't know what stirrups and horseshoes were, but whether it was the manufacturing method of colored glaze or the method of extracting fine salt from poisonous salt mines, they were huge profits among huge profits.

Liu Xie said: "When Emperor Taizu Gao saw the decline of the Han Dynasty, he taught it to me in a dream. I can't remember the detailed method clearly, only some rough ideas."

This explanation sounded ridiculous, but Zhen Mi did not doubt it at all. Instead, she said very excitedly: "This is exactly the revelation given to your majesty by Emperor Taizu Gao. It shows that your majesty has fulfilled his destiny."

Not many years have passed since the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Some people believe in the Yellow Turban, and the immortals and gods are even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

It was perfectly normal for Emperor Taizu Gao to send a revelation to the emperor.

Liu Xie then began to tell Zhen Mi about the manufacturing technology of glass, horseshoes and stirrups, as well as iron smelting techniques such as steel filling method and double liquid quenching method, as well as the refining technology of toxic salt mines.

It's a pity that he has not read the required manual for time travellers.

Therefore, except for glass, the technologies mentioned above were only briefly understood when I read history books and watched short videos in my previous life. I cannot tell you the detailed process and specific steps.

Fortunately, except for iron smelting technology, the difficulty of other things is not high.

Liu Xie believes that as long as the concept is stated, it will not be a problem to find the correct method through constant trial and error with the wisdom of ancient craftsmen.

Sometimes it’s not that you’re technically incompetent, it’s just that you lack some ideas.

"...That's probably it. Have you written it down?"

Liu Xie mentioned all these techniques in one breath and then stopped.

Zhen Mi stopped the pen in her hand and handed the still-dry ink on the silk paper to Liu Xie, "Your Majesty, take a look at it and see if there is anything missing?"

Liu Xie glanced at it and found that it was exactly what he said. He nodded with satisfaction and said, "Yes, that's it. You transfer these technologies to the Zhen family and let them find craftsmen for experiments."

"Remember that these technologies must be kept secret and must not be leaked!"

Things like horseshoes and stirrups must be kept secret before they become available.

Otherwise, once someone discovers it, it can be imitated immediately.

Other glass manufacturing processes, several advanced iron smelting methods and salt refining methods must not be leaked.

This is the cornucopia he asked Zhen to prepare for him!

Zhen Mi smiled slightly and said playfully: "These are money trees and cornucopias. Even if Your Majesty doesn't tell me, my mother will never let these things leak out."

Liu Xie was stunned when he heard this, and thought for a moment that this was indeed the case.

Unless Zhen's head is filled with water, she would rather die than leak it.

Zhen Mi dried the ink, carefully put the paper away, put it into Liu Xie's arms, and said, "I want to rush to the front line with Your Majesty."

"No." Liu Xie flatly refused. There was no need to discuss this matter.

Seeing Zhen Mi looking like she was about to cry, he calmed down and comforted her.

"Although the battlefield is dangerous, I am the emperor. Yuan Shao would rather his son die than put me in danger. I love you, please be at ease."

"Besides, Youzhou is bitterly cold and your body is delicate. How can I let you suffer along with me?"

No matter out of interests or selfish considerations, Liu Xie would never agree to Zhen Mi's request.

She fell seriously ill just after returning to her parents' home in Wuji, let alone running to the battlefield in Youzhou?

Don't let Mrs. Zhen run away when the time comes.

"Concubine, I know." Zhen Mi's eyes were slightly sad. Although she was unwilling to do so, she also knew that Liu Xie could not let her do this kind of thing.

"Okay, my dear, please have a good rest. I will come back to accompany you later."

After explaining these things, Liu Xie left.

In fact, there was more to his mind than that, but he had to eat his food in bite-sized chunks, so it was better to take his time.

These techniques were enough for Zhen to study and digest for a long time.

…

When the sun was about to set, Jia Xu and Guo Jia entered the palace together.

Like Guo Jia before, Jia Xu was also a little panicked at this time.

The battlefield was full of uncontrollable factors. No matter how he schemed, it was difficult for the emperor to avoid the dangers on the battlefield.

If something happened to the emperor on the battlefield, all his plans would be in vain!

Therefore, when he heard the news from Guo Jia, he, who had just come out of Xu You's house and was still excited, suddenly turned as black as coal.

In his heart, he had already greeted the ancestors of Ju Su and Yuan Shao for eighteen generations.

Jia Xu said to Gao Lan and Zhang He with a serious look: "On this trip to Youzhou, the two generals must protect the safety of His Majesty and must not be lax!"

Zhang He also looked solemn and said very solemnly: "Don't worry, Guanglu Xun, but if the thieves hurt His Majesty, He will bring his head to see you!"

Gao Lan hammered his chest loudly, "We will swear to protect His Majesty to the death!"

Jia Xu was still worried, and gave Zhang He and Gao Lan a few more words before letting them go.

Seeing that Guo Jia and Jia Xu were a little absent-minded, Liu Xie comforted them: "I am just going to the front line to supervise the battle and boost morale, not to fight on the battlefield with a knife. Yuan Shao will never let me get into trouble."

That's what he said, and it's the same reason, but Jia Xu was always worried and always had a bad premonition.

"Yuan Shao is such a traitor, and Ju Su is such a traitor. How could they have such a ridiculous suggestion! Not to mention Youzhou, even the four states of Bing, You, Ji, and Qing combined are not as important as your Majesty's safety!"

Jia Xu was extremely angry and scolded the two without caring about his manners.

Guo Jia sighed, "Yuan Shao wants to solve Gongsun Zan's worries too much. Only by taking Youzhou can he let go of his hands and feet to deal with Cao Cao. For this reason, he even let your Majesty take the risk of going to the front line."

Jia Xu's eyes flashed with murderous light, and he said bitterly, "I originally wanted to use the strategy of son killing father, and wait for one of Yuan Xi or Yuan Shang to be sent to Bingzhou before implementing it. Now it seems that Yuan Shao must not stay for long!"

"When that man comes back from the front line, I will start to make arrangements!"

After listening to Jia Xu's harsh words, Liu Xie said: "Fengxiao, Wenhe, Yuan Shao asked me to supervise the battle to boost morale. If Gongsun Zan is really destroyed in one battle, Yuan Shao will occupy four states! Who in the world will be his opponent? By then, I am afraid that I will be a puppet until he unifies the world."

"A few days ago, you and I, the king and ministers, discussed and found no external forces to help Gongsun Zan. Now I have a way."

Jia Xu and Guo Jia were shocked when they heard this.

"What means can your majesty use to help Gongsun Zan?"

Whether in Liu Xie's heart or Jia Xu and Guo Jia's heart, they didn't want Yuan Shao to occupy Youzhou.

After Yuan Shao occupied four states, he held the emperor hostage to command the princes, and no one in the world could control him.

Of course, Yuan Shao couldn't be too weak, otherwise he couldn't protect the emperor.

Only a half-dead boss Yuan is a good boss Yuan.

Originally, Gongsun Zan was eyeing him from the north, and Cao Cao was a serious threat from the south.

For Liu Xie, this was a good situation, and he could hide in the dark and develop slowly.

But once this balance was broken, it would be a disaster.

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(PS: There is another chapter today, the time is uncertain, but it will definitely be before ten o'clock.)