Chapter 59 My son Liu Chang has the potential to be a prince

"Master, I feel... I don't need to learn swordsmanship anymore."

Liu Chang held the wooden sword in his hand and spoke thoughtfully.

"oh?"

Gai Gong looked at him in surprise.

"I discovered that the most brilliant swordsmanship is to not use a sword, but to use your lips as a gun, your tongue as a sword... to kill people invisibly, to defeat the enemy with words..."

"Really? Then step back and let me see?" Gai Gong slowly drew out his sword and made an attacking gesture.

"Um... I'd better continue studying..."

Liu Chang's life during this period was quite comfortable. He learned swordsmanship from Gai Gong and practiced swordsmanship with Luan Bu. The rest of the time, he led a group of hooligans to make trouble in Chang'an City. The successors of these "excellent" meritorious officials have always been a mess. Even Zhou Shengzhi could not unite them. They fought each other, so the effect was not good.

But now, the situation is very different. Liu Chang descended from the sky and brought together the previously scattered second-generation Gong group, so they burst out with infinite fighting power. Liu Chang asked Zhou Shengzhi and Fan Kang to accompany Xiahou Zao to Xiahou Mansion and steal an old-fashioned chariot while General Xiahou was away.

Then he took away two good horses from Chen Mai's house.

Liu Chang stood on the chariot, holding a wooden sword and pointing forward. Xiahou Zao imitated his father and swung the whip violently. Zhou Shengzhi and Fan Kang stood on the left and right of the carriage respectively, screaming. The rest of the children followed behind the chariot as infantry.

At first, everything went smoothly. They rushed around in the empty Chang'an City. Many children from civilian families even shouted to follow them. Later, patrolling soldiers began to "follow" them, allowing Liu Chang to experience the thrill of being a general. It was not until Xiahou Zao drove his chariot into a ditch, causing the whole army to fall to the ground, that this heroic expedition ended in a "tragic" way.

"Cook! How do you drive?"

"My father drove it this way..."

"Bullshit! If your father drove like this, my second brother would have been run over by him long ago!"

"And you, Kang, didn't I ask you to carry the flag? If you can't find a flag, you can just tie a strip of cloth on a stick! What do you mean by tying a 衵服 (pre-Qin belly|belt)?"

The heads of several families went to the palace to complain to Empress Lu. As the culprit, Liu Chang naturally lay in bed for several days.

However, by the time the scar healed, he had already forgotten the pain.

The second time, they decided to do something good to change the adults' views. After drawing lots, under the leadership of Xiao Yan, they robbed the granary in the Prime Minister's Mansion and gave the stolen food to the poor people living in the marginal areas of Chang'an. Xiao He was good-tempered and did not complain, but the reputation of this group of "chivalrous thieves" became worse and worse.

It can't be said that he is as famous as any other person, but he is definitely notorious and hated by everyone.

When he was called to the Xuanshi Hall, Liu Chang had already prepared himself to be beaten and was thinking about how to argue later.

However, it looked like his father had no intention of paying any attention to him. He just frowned and looked helplessly at the report in front of him.

The atmosphere was a bit depressing. Liu Chang was very bored, so he sat not far away and used his hands to pretend to be two dummies fighting each other. He added the fighting sounds himself and the fight was very intense.

After a long time, Liu Bang put down the memorial in his hand, looked at Liu Chang, and without saying a word, motioned him to follow him.

Liu Chang followed Liu Bang and they came to a carriage where a minister had been waiting. This minister was Chen Ping, Chen Mai's father. Liu Chang quickly shrank his neck and hid behind Liu Bang. He had just borrowed someone ... If he complained, he would be beaten.

Liu Bang picked up Liu Chang and put him directly on the carriage. He and Chen Ping also got on the carriage and headed out of the city.

The two men were silent. Liu Chang tried to hold back for a moment, but couldn't help asking curiously, "Father? Where are we going?"

"Outside the city."

"What are you doing outside the city?"

"You have been behaving recklessly during this period. Your mother is protecting you in the palace, so I plan to take you outside the city and bury you somewhere deserted."

Liu Chang looked disdainful. Are you kidding me? You even buried me. Do you think you are Bai Qi?

When Liu Bang saw Liu Chang's appearance, he couldn't help but burst out laughing.

They walked all the way to a farmland, which was very familiar to Liu Chang because he had helped the Shangfang people make new farm tools here some time ago. Could it be that new farm tools were made? These people were so unkind that they didn't inform me before they made them and went to report to my father first? ?

Sure enough, Liu Bang brought him here for new farm tools.

The craftsmen of Shangfang made seven different kinds of plows. They also made the unrealistic all-purpose plow proposed by Liu Chang, and the workmanship was excellent without any problems. They were not the crude products made by Liu Chang... Shangfang Ling began to introduce these plows to them.

From their cost, to their function, efficiency, practicality, whether it is laborious, etc., according to them, among the seven plows, only the one with a changed shaft arm was the most successful. The ideas of the other plows were good, but some of them became extremely laborious and required three or four oxen, which was simply not practical in the Han Dynasty. Otherwise, the installed plowshares and hoes were easily damaged and needed to be replaced frequently. The Han Dynasty's iron tools were already seriously insufficient and could not withstand such wear and tear.

Liu Chang also listened to Shang Fangling's words seriously and couldn't help but touch his chin.

It seems that if you want to make better machines, you have to smelt iron first, increase the Han Dynasty's iron production, or make better steel.

Mining and smelting, start from these two aspects.

Liu Chang thought seriously, but Liu Bang was very happy, because according to Shang Fang Ling, this new plow with a simple change of the shaft arm could increase the original farming efficiency by two or three times. Liu Bang happily pecked Liu Chang on the face, and the boy suddenly became my cub again.

Liu Chang found that his father was really shameless. He was a scoundrel when nothing happened, but a weakling when something happened! How could there be such a person? ?

"Each of your small improvements can benefit many people. I hope that you can use your talent in this area instead of leading a group of brats to make trouble in Chang'an City... You have great potential!"

As Liu Bang was speaking, Liu Chang probably understood that the reason why he was not beaten by his father was because of the new farm tools.

Liu Bang was happily rewarding the Shangfang people and asking them to prepare a large amount of production, but in the distance he heard the faint sound of horse hooves and the reverberation of carriages.

Liu Bang narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance. The soldiers around him were also lined up in battle formation. The people coming were Prime Minister Xiao He and Imperial Censor Zhao Yao.

The two men hurriedly came to Liu Bang and bowed to him.

"It is so difficult to see Your Majesty!"

Xiao He stood up and sighed helplessly.

Liu Bang smiled and explained, "I have been too busy these days with so many things to do."

The two stood on Liu Bang's left and right without saying anything. Liu Chang soon noticed that his father's face flashed with displeasure, and he was not interested in continuing to brag here. He waved his hand, called Chen Ping, got on the carriage, and prepared to return to the palace. Xiao He and Zhao Yao also hurriedly got on the carriage and followed Liu Bang closely.

In the carriage, Liu Bang and Chen Ping did not say a word, and the atmosphere became more serious than before.

"Alas, alas, I am pressed very hard, what can I do? What can I do?"

Liu Bang suddenly asked.

Chen Ping, who was sitting next to him, turned around and looked at the two carriages behind, but his eyes finally fell on Liu Chang.

Liu Chang responded with a silly smile, a simple, innocent smile.

Chen Ping looked at Liu Chang for a long time, then said calmly: "If that's the case...then there is only one way."

"any solution??"

"Give him a taste of his own medicine."

"ah?"

Liu Bang was stunned, and then his eyes fell on Liu Chang behind him.

Liu Chang was bewildered. What are you looking at me for? I am not a spear.

Liu Bang narrowed his eyes, and suddenly, he thought of something and burst into laughter.