746 Lu Bus Arrival (1/2)
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.