Ma Teng originally thought he was a roadblock on the Silk Road. After squatting in the middle of the road, the caravans in the Central Plains could only accept exploitation obediently.

Didn’t the bandits who gathered in the mountains and roared forests do this a few years ago? He just carried forward the cause of robbery. Unexpectedly, Cao Zhe was so irresponsible that he completely blocked the border in just a few days and stopped coming.

Is it just a little protection fee?

Now, Cao Tie no longer broke the stall and had no chance.

The money was cut off and he was already angry. Fa Zheng even asked him to write a letter to apologize. What is the difference between this and being slapped in the face and having to smile on his face?

He said unhappily: "You always say that you are waiting for the opportunity and when will you go? And how do you know that Cao Thief will not destroy us before attacking Liu Bei?"

“No.”

Fa Zheng's eyes were shining with a wise light and said confidently: "If Cao and Liu were two tigers, we would at most be considered evil wolves. When the two tigers confronted each other, they did not have the time to deal with evil wolves, and they would not dare to deal with evil wolves. No matter which tiger was distracted to deal with us, the other end would pounce on it and tear it to pieces."

"As it said, Liangzhou has too little foundation and is facing too strong enemies. If you want to seize the world, you must fight a protracted war. If you are a tiger, you are a wolf. If you are a wolf, you must have the patience of a wolf, otherwise you will only become the food of a tiger."

If you are not as strong as others, you have to be cowardly.

Ma Teng, who hit the south wall, realized his mistake and smiled bitterly: "You go to Xudu in person, no matter how much you pay, you must let Cao Cao lift the blockade order. By the way, be careful when it comes to Xudu. The Cao family's father and son still hold a grudge in Jiang Wan's case."

"Here."

Fa Zheng said, "To show our sincerity in apologizing, this time, I wanted to bring all the caravans in the Western Regions to let them see the prosperity of the Han capital, and at the same time make a bridge to let them get to know the Central Plains family. In the future, business will be easy to negotiate, and when they have frequent exchanges, we will make more money."

Ma Teng nodded and said, "You can do it."

"Thank you father."

Fa Zheng bowed and turned around and stepped on Pang Rou's horse and prepared to go.

Currently, there are eight Western Regions caravans gathered in Jincheng, belonging to five different countries. Fa Zheng found them to explain the situation and agreed to leave before leaving.

This mission is of great importance, so he needs to make a good plan. In addition to the Cao family, father and son, the joints of the Central Plains families that they offended must be opened.

He was sure of this. The aristocratic family seeks wealth. As long as the Ma family is still blocked on the Silk Road, they have to cooperate with the Ma family. They just can't just go empty-handed when they meet others. They still need to consider what gifts they bring.

Fa Zheng prepared for three days, and on the morning of the fourth day, he led his team to Xudu. He thought that as the envoy of Xiliang, he should be able to move smoothly along the way, but he was blocked by Xu Huang as soon as he arrived in Guanzhong.

The blockade order is very clear. No one from the west can fly into Guanzhong. Is it really the court's blockade order a decoration?

Fa Zheng was so depressed that he had the heart to hit the wall.

However, he was an envoy of Liangzhou after all. Although Xu Huang could intercept him, he did not dare to drive him away. He had to arrange for them to stay and send someone to Beijing to ask for instructions on Cao Cao while having a good meal and good drinks.

Xu Du.

The blockade order for Liangzhou has been issued, so naturally someone is responsible for supervising the implementation. As for smuggling, no one dares. No matter whether it is a noble family or a poor family, no one dares to do business in the Western Regions is a fool. It can be seen that the blockade order is a means to force Ma Teng to compromise rather than an end. After a while, the blockade order will naturally be lifted.

The interests on that road were too huge, the court was unwilling to give up, the aristocratic families were unwilling to give up, and Ma Teng was also unwilling to give up.

At this time, secretly smuggling is equivalent to openly standing against the imperial court and the aristocratic family. Who will cooperate with you in the future?

Therefore, this time the imperial court and the aristocratic families were particularly united. If they said they would not ship goods to Liangzhou, they would have never shipped a grain of rice. They stayed at home and waited for the New Year.

Now they don’t have to do anything, just staying obediently is making contributions to the court. Where can I find such good things?

Beijing No. 1.

The Ma Jun and Gongshu brothers are still busy in the laboratory.

Some time ago, Zhuge Liang designed to steal the generator they were studying. Ma Jun, who learned from his mistakes, strengthened his protection of the laboratory and applied to Cao Ang to transfer a 12-hour stand on duty. Even the food of the three of them was delivered by the soldiers on duty, and no idle personnel were allowed to enter the laboratory.

That afternoon, the three of them calculated the formula on the black and black operating table as usual. The iron door of the laboratory was suddenly knocked on. When they heard it, they knew they were kicked with their feet.

Such a lack of quality and courageous person was used to think about who it was. Ma Jun raised his head and said helplessly: "Young Master is here, go and open the door."

Gongshu Jing walked up to open the door and saw that it was indeed Cao Ang. He quickly turned to the side and said, "Please, Young Master."

Cao Ang walked into the laboratory, looked at the operating table and frowned, "You guys can't clean up, it's all dirty."

“It’s a waste of time to clean up.”

Ma Jun pointed to the generator in the corner and said, "Young master, you see, the new generator has been made, and we have also made the light bulb you mentioned. Today I invite you to come here to witness this glorious moment with your subordinates. Are you ready?"

Ma Jun stepped up the production of another generator, and summarized the experience and lessons learned, and made some minor changes based on the on-stage to make the performance of the generator better play.

Cao Ang looked closely and found that the generator was nearly 20% larger than the one stolen by Zhuge Liang, and there was a wire connected to the generator. At the end of the wire was a light bulb that he was very familiar with.

Looking at the light bulb, Cao Ang was inexplicably excited and couldn't wait to say, "Try turning it on quickly."

After so many years, I can finally get rid of the days of lighting with oil lamps and candles.

Ma Jun was also excited. He walked to the generator and reached out to the switch. When he was about to push it up, he found that his fingers were trembling so hard that he could not exert any force.

This was his hard work for more than half a year. If he succeeded, he would naturally be happy. But if he failed... he was a little afraid of seeing the result.

"Start up, pull the switch and you'll be slow to pull it."

Cao Ang couldn't see it, so he pulled him to the side and reached out to push the switch up. Then the four of them looked at the light bulb not far away, and saw that it was really light up and the four of them were stunned at the same time, and then jumped up to cheer at the same time after three seconds.

Cao Ang couldn't wait to say, "Hurry up, pull up the curtains to see the brightness."

"Oh..." Gongshujing ran over and stretched his hand towards the curtain when the light bulb exploded and almost hurt someone.

Then the four people were stunned, staring at the light bulb fragments on the ground with eight eyes.

How could this be...?

After being stunned for thirty seconds, Cao Ang reacted and patted Ma Jun's shoulder and comforted: "Maybe the vacuum in the light bulb was not cleaned. Think of a way, don't be frustrated. If you can succeed once, you can succeed twice. At least it's a good start. You guys are busy first, I have to go back to rehearse."

Yes, it's rehearsal.
Chapter completed!