Chapter 746-Lu Bu's Arrival
Translator: ryangohsf
Editor: Nora
Lingnan Province, Chaozhou Prefecture.
Hidden powers moved outside of the territory while Ouyang Shuo remained still, continuing his journey as planned.
In his review of the cities, he also had to deal with the memorials from the Nanjiang Governor-General House.
Currently, Ouyang Shuo was spending the day at Xingning County.
In a certain courtyard within Xingning County that was tightly sealed by three thousand Divine Martial Guards, not even a fly could enter. Within it, the Personal Guards took charge and every corner was under supervision.
After the Battle of Red Cliff ended, Xu Chu became the Personal Guards Captain. Ouyang Shuo took the chance to expand the Personal Guards to 200 people, splitting into two shifts to protect him around the clock.
Each Personal Guard was highly skilled and could fight one against 10.
While traveling outside, Ouyang Shuo naturally would not be arrogant and took all safety and protective measures. Apart from the Divine Martial Guards and Personal Guards, the Shadow Guards were also following him in the darkness.
Before Ouyang Shuo had arrived in Chaozhou, he had already sent the 3rd legion of the Tiger Legion Corps to comb the entire prefecture to remove any enemies that had escaped.
Each layer of protection work combined together, ensuring that no stones were left unturned.
Within the reading room, Ouyang Shuo was burning the midnight oil and reading the memorials. During the day, many people had wanted to meet him. He went to two feasts in the noon and at night, but that did not burn away at his mental strength.
He was still filled with energy and would read batch after batch of memorials every night.
The current memorial he had picked up came from the Agriculture Division.
After the voyage journey ended, Ouyang Shuo had smoothly exchanged for the sewing machine crafting technology from William. The No.7 Research Institute had begun to work on it and there would be results by the end of the year.
The prosperity of the garment industry was something to look forward to.
Hence, while Ouyang Shuo placed focus on the sewing machine and garment-related technologies, he also ordered the Agriculture Division to make a specific silkworm breeding plan.
Ouyang Shuo's goal was to push out silkworm breeding, especially coloured silkworm breeding, to the entire territory. He wanted to allow the scale to break a million hectares and to let the units of silk produced reach the tens of millions.
Only then could they sustain the garment industry.
Ouyang Shuo was really clear that under the circumstance that they were using sewing machines on a large scale, the demands for silk and raw materials would be terrifying. He did not wish for raw materials to not keep up with the available sewing machines, which would then affect production.
Each industry needed to form its own industrial chain, only then would it have a future.
The memorial submitted by Agricultural Secretary Sun Yannong expressed that there had been breakthrough developments. After intense discussions, the Agricultural Division had agreed on a plan that all sides could agree to.
The Textile Association would invest 100 thousand gold, Financial Bureau 300 thousand gold, borrowing another 200 thousand from the Four Seas Bank, a total of 600 thousand gold to form a silkworm breeding fund to support the farmers in the various prefectures to breed silkworms.
At the same time, the various prefectures would also reserve a certain amount from their own finances to support silkworm breeding. With that, the most core funds problem had been solved.
Toward this, Ouyang Shuo did not interfere nor did he need to take funds out of his own pocket.
To the entire territory, the six million in his pocket really could not be considered much. If everything required this Monarch to pay from his own pocket, what were the ministers and officials doing?
Territories had their own running rules.
Setting up the joint fund was a groundbreaking solution. The tertiary finances, associations, local houses and main organizations all worked together.
In olden times, this was pretty much perfect.
After Ouyang Shuo read through it, he noted at the bottom of the memorial, "Follow this plan. The setting up of the fund can be pushed out to other industries and regions."
Closing the memorial, Ouyang Shuo took up the next book.
The memorial came from Du Ruhui, it only reported one piece of news. The Three Kingdoms General that Ouyang Shuo had been waiting for - Lu Bu - had finally arrived at Shanhai City to reunite with Diao Chan.
Along with him were two more people, the strategist Chen Gong and General Gao Shun.
Chen Gong was a strategist under Lu Bu during the ending years of East Han. He had a really direct personality and was extremely intelligent, coming up with many plans and strategies. When he was young, he had dealt with many famous ministers in the country.
192 A.D., the provincial governor of Yanzhou died in crusade against Huangjin. Chen Gong and the others supported Cao Cao in taking over Yanzhou and were hence trusted by him.
But after this, as Cao Cao killed famous Han scholars, Chen Gong lobbied Zhang Miao to betray Cao Cao, leading Lu Bu into Yanzhou. He helped Lu Bu beat Cao Cao, obtaining Yanzhou and Xuzhou.
In Xiapi City, Lu Bu did not listen to Chen Gong and failed in the end. After Lu Bu lost in battle, they were all captured and killed.
Even during the Three Kingdoms Period where strategists were as common as clouds, Chen Gong could be considered a top class strategist.
However, as he was too direct and unable to take the brutality of Cao Cao, he directly went up against Cao Cao. In the end, he chose an unwise master like Lu Bu, causing him to die.
In history, being executed along with Lu Bu was his general, Gao Shun. General Zhang Liao under Lu Bu's charge had chosen to follow Cao Cao.
Gao Shun's ability was no less than Zhang Liao.
If one read into the Three Kingdoms, Gao Shun was a general that was buried in history.
Gao Shun was pretty much a perfect soldier. Not only could he fight, he was also great at training troops. The army he brought out had the name of 'Formation Crushing Unit', a true elite unit in the Three Kingdoms history.
Apart from that, Gao Shun was also exceedingly all rounded; he had the brains and could give suggestions to Lu Bu at the Xue Xiao moment. He was also really smart and flexible when dealing with sudden matters.
In terms of virtues, in the Han end heroes memorial, it recorded him as someone who did not drink and did not gamble.
Gao Shun was also extremely loyal. He did not claim credit, he was not arrogant, and even if Lu Bu did not give him good roles, he would not grumble.
In the face of life and death, he chose brotherhood and did not care about whether his choice was worth it or not. From a moral standpoint, he was undoubtedly a model soldier.
Shanhai City did not lack generals, and they only lacked generals that knew how to train troops like Gao Shun. Without mentioning how to deal with Lu Bu, Gao Shun would be able to get a high position to train troops.
Lu Bu, Chen Gong, and Gao Shun coming over was undoubtedly good news. Ouyang Shuo noted in the memorial to ask Du Ruhui to care for the three of them. Ouyang Shuo would arrange their appointments after he returned to Shanhai City.
Putting down the memorial, Ouyang Shuo raised his head and looked outside the window.
The moon hung high in the sky, the moon was bright and stars were rare. It was a special day with good weather.
Looking at the night sky, Ouyang Shuo could feel that there was a huge dragon breathing amongst the clouds above.
During the Battle of Lingnan, Shanhai City territory expanding by three prefectures had undoubtedly benefitted the fate dragon the most. As a result, its body grew much larger.
Now, the fate dragon was using the strength of the moonlight to temper its body.
Ouyang Shuo could feel the purple inside the body of the fate dragon becoming brighter, which was a good sign for the prosperity of the territory.
Looking back down, Ouyang Shuo continued to look at memorials.
The territory matters were really complicated. Even with many officials helping him out, he could not wash his hands off them completely. In the wilderness, the chaotic times made ruling by not doing anything a stupid idea.
Of course, this was also training for Ouyang Shuo.
From village to town, from county to prefecture, and now to the verge of establishing a country, Ouyang Shuo's personal ability had soared.
In reality, Ouyang Shuo could be considered a young genius.
The last memorial was from Cui Yingyu and had something to do with the industries. As the various industries in the territory prospered, they also faced many problems and bottlenecks.
First, the money sucking shipbuilding industry.
During the Gaia 3rd year, the brightest light would have to be the shipbuilding industry.
The shipbuilding industry had set the basis for Shanhai City's sea travel and allowed the Nanyang Navy to expand to such a crazy scale.
One could say that without the rise of shipbuilding, there would not be the five squadrons. Naturally, they would not be able to create the legend of them sailing through the oceans and showing off to the world.
Everything was supported by numerous shipbuilders behind the scenes.
The shipbuilding industry not only brought a lot of honor but crazy profits as well. Based on reports from the Financial Bureau, in just the first six months of the 3rd year, the territory had earned four million from selling merchant ships.
Apart from that, there were also the crazy profits from warships.
Shipbuilding had already become a key pillar of territory finances and helped support half of the territory. Even the military industry could not be compared to it.
One had to say that the profits truly could make one crazy.
Beneath all these matters, there were worries too.
As they opened the voyaging path, the request for merchant ships only grew, and the orders for the big shipyards were filled till the next year.
An increase in orders was supposed to be a happy matter.
The situation reported by Cui Yingyu made Ouyang Shuo frown instead. The game only added a construction completion bar, but the resources it needed were real and could not be skimped on.
Each boat was built with large amounts of wood.
However, the requirements for wood meant that only the high quality wood could be used. Moreover, different units needed different types of wood.
A complete ship often used up fir, pine, cedar, teak, eucalyptus, nanmu, and many different types of wood.
With this, there had been large-scale deforestation. The 100 thousand mountains between Lingnan Province and Lianzhou Basin had become a barren land.
Now, the territory had started to have a wood shortage crisis.