Dian Wei touched his bald head, with an inexplicable look on his face, and Chen Lin on the side whispered to Dian Wei: "What Your Majesty means is that Your Majesty is willing to accept these former rebels, as long as they change their minds." His Majesty bypassed them this time and just gave them a chance. ”

Dian Wei nodded incomprehensibly.

Subsequently, the ministers played some things, all of which were ordinary government affairs, Cao Cao handed these over to the following six departments to deal with, and after the dispersal of the dynasty, Lu Su, Xun Yu, Dian Wei, and Ma Chao stayed.

Cao Cao asked Xun Yu: "Wen Ruo, just now above the court, did you have something you didn't say?" ”

Xun Yu said: "Your Majesty is wise. There are some things that Weichen feels inappropriate to discuss in public. ”

Cao Cao nodded and motioned for Xun Yu to explain.

Xun Yu arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, the target of this conspiration rebellion is not only some great families and those ministers who have defected to the court, but also the army!" ”

Cao Cao's eyebrows shrank, looked at Xun Yu and asked, "What Wen Ruo said is true, isn't the place right?" ”

Xun Yu nodded.

"Which one?"

"What has been discovered so far is that this is the case with some local troops in Jingzhou, Yizhou, and Yangzhou, whose main generals have been secretly detained by us, and now these troops are in the hands of reliable people."

Cao Cao smiled and asked with some surprise, "Wen Ruo, didn't you handle it well?" Why are you still worried? ”

Xun Yu frowned and said: "Wechen is worried that there are still some things that have not been exposed that are still lurking, and in addition, Wechen is also worried that the Ninth Legion and the Tenth Legion will have a similar situation!" ”

Cao Cao's brows furrowed, Xun Yu's worry was very likely. Because the main component of the 9th and 10th legions was the surrender of the defeated princes that day.

Cao Cao pondered for a moment and asked, "Is there anything Wen Ruoke can do?" ”

Xun Yu hesitated for a moment and said, "Weichen has an idea. But I wonder what Your Majesty means? ”

Cao Cao nodded and asked, "What's the solution?" ”

"The main component of the Ninth and Tenth Army Corps was Yuan Shao's army. We might as well send a heavy general of Yuan Shao's family who is already completely loyal to us to lead them! ”

Cao Cao was stunned for a moment, thought about it and nodded slowly: "This is a way, since this is the case, appoint Zhang He and Gao Ran to command the ninth and tenth legions!" ”

"Weichen Command!"

Throughout the year when Cao Cao returned to Chang'an, the Wei army never launched any war, only the local army cleared the bandit army entrenched in various places, and during this year, all the places under Cao Cao's control made every effort to develop production, and commercial activities were also developing rapidly. The caravans of various countries passing through the Yumen Pass every day were endless, which brought considerable wealth to the Great Wei Empire.

Cao Cao rejected the proposal of some ministers to build palaces in Hanzhong, Xuzhou, Luoyang and other places, and instead vigorously built places designed to house orphans and widowed old people, Lemin Yuan, as well as martial schools and literary schools, to further increase the number of imperial examination officials and professional officers, this move won the praise of the government and the public, and made Cao Cao's image more lofty in the minds of the people.

The situation around Great Wei was relatively calm, and the countries of the Western Regions were completely subjugated to the Great Wei Tianwei. The two counties of Linhai and Haidong, which were not very peaceful in the past, also behaved quite tamely, and Sun Jian, the only surviving prince in Jiangdong, was anxious about the increasingly serious financial and local stability problems, and he wanted to reduce the army, but faced the pressure of hundreds of thousands of elites of the Great Wei. He didn't dare to cut it at all, and sometimes, Sun Jian really wanted to follow Liu Zhang's example and surrender Cao Cao directly.

And during this time. The shipyard, on which Cao Cao had great expectations, also made significant progress, a new type of warship that should not have appeared. appeared on this plane.

In the north of Daliang, near a place in Guandu. The largest shipyard in the Great Wei is located here, this shipyard in the past, produced a large number of warships, if not the Wei Navy is not strong, or, just with the huge number of warships, can directly pile up the Wu State of the sailors.

Cao Cao was in this shipyard at this time, and the shipyards that were piled up in the past have all disappeared, leaving a kind of warship, that is, the famous sail battleships of later generations!

Uniformity seems to be a common problem in later generations, since the construction of battleships, all kinds of warships were destroyed by Cao Cao, and only various types of battleships remained.

The battleships were the same as they were in the 17th century, and even had gun windows on both sides, with the smallest battleship having 28 gun windows and the largest having 54 windows.

However, the battleship is not a powerful cannon, but a bow and crossbow loaded with a huge crossbow arrow with a cold light, and on the crossbow arrow, it is tied to a long barrel-shaped fire oil canister, you can imagine that when the water battle comes, these crossbows carrying fire oil canisters are shot on the opponent's warship, you know, the warship at this time is not fireproof, as long as there is a trace of spark on the battlefield, it is enough to set the entire warship on fire!

This is also the method that Cao Cao came up with in a flash of inspiration, although the range of the huge bow and crossbow is not as good as that of artillery, but it is enough to make the Wei army's sailors become long-range sailors instead of personally fighting in battle, which is completely an epoch-making invention for the Wei State, which has a huge population and heritage, but the soldiers cannot exert their strength in water combat!

"Very good, Duke Deng, how powerful is this ship?" Cao Cao looked at the battleship with satisfaction and asked the gray-haired old man on the side.

"Back to Your Majesty, this warship Weichen and the others have been tested no less than ten times, and its power, even if it was the largest building ship at the beginning, only twenty to thirty bows and crossbows carrying fire oil tanks were enough to bury it in the sea of fire! In other words, such a smallest warship, as long as it is not approached by the Lou Ship, is enough to destroy the Lou Ship! ”

Deng Gong replied proudly, being able to build such a powerful warship with his own hands in his lifetime was enough to make him feel dead without regrets!

"It's just that Weichen is incompetent, and now he has made a warship with fifty-four crossbows, and there is no way to make a warship that can install more than a hundred crossbows in His Majesty's mouth, please punish Your Majesty!"

Cao Cao picked up Deng Dong, who had a look of shame on his face, and said with a smile: "Deng Gong, you can build so many warships in just a few years, not only are you without fault, but you have merit, and in the same way, I believe that in the future, Deng Gong will definitely be able to build the powerful warship that I said at the beginning!" ”

"Your Majesty, Old Minister!!"

With a touched face, Duke Deng bowed deeply to Cao Cao, and then asked respectfully: "Your Majesty, this kind of warship is completely different from the previous warships, and Weichen begs Your Majesty to give this warship a name!" (To be continued.) )