Chapter 362 Liu Ye (1/2)
Chapter 362 – Liu Ye
Within a few months after the coronation ceremony, several nobles displayed their dark side.
One of Tong's faction, a former Yellow Turban subordinate of Zhang Jiao, hired a group of assassins to kill Liu Xie's supporters. The group of rogues assaulted the official's residents at night.
Fortunately, Lu Zhi's systematic police forces were patrolling all official residential areas. They caught all assassins and saved the officer.
The mastermind was dragged out, and all culprits were executed in public along with their families.
A few days after the public execution, the police caught a group of thugs in Ye City. A son of a Liu Xie's supporter noble led a group of hoodlums to assault a daughter of an official, who was in Tong's faction.
The father of the offending young master was sacked from his post. The hoodlums were sentenced to work ten years in a Jinyang coal mine, while the young master was castrated and imprisoned for 20 years.
The police also caught a group of minor officials in a tavern, fighting in a brawl. The offenders had a debate about the political issues as they were on a different faction. In the end, it escalated into a physical fight.
All officials were released from their positions on the day they were arrested. They were banned from participating in any scholar activities for one year. However, they could rejoin the noble ranks again by working their way up from a worker class.
The police department was also not an exception to these outbreak crimes. FBI agents from Lu Zhi broke into a resident of a police supervisor, rescuing several young girls from his resident. Upon investigation and intelligence report from Sima Lang's men, this officer took bribes from Xiongnu slave merchants.
The arrested police officer was stripped of his title, noble tiers, and rank. Lu Zhi sentenced him 20 years of public service by working in Jinyang coal mines.
The Department of Justice's strictness towards the official increased with their number of newly graduated policemen from Julu. Furthermore, Te Langpu released a massive campaign and propaganda about police family welfare to recruit more police officers.
In July, 188 A.D., Ye City housed 20,000 garrisoning police officers and a thousand FBI agents. Julu became a capital city of the police academy as another batch of 20,000 policemen were being trained. All top students from the police classes were promoted into FBI trainees, which had a higher salary and noble tier.
This put the heated-infighting between the two factions to a hold. As the laws became more sacred, they were afraid of the consequences of their planned dirty deeds.
As such, over 90% crooked nobles aborted their secret plans. The rest of daredevils went through with it, but they met received their bad-endings as a result.
Then, a change occurred again within Liu Xie's faction.
Liu Ye, a 12-year-old scholar who aspired in machinery and war tools, managed to achieve a notable deed first.
Inspired by the prototype cannons, he combined the gunpowder technologies and used arrows instead of cannonballs as ammunition. Instead of using bronze as a primary resource to build a cannon, Liu Ye degraded it into something more procurable and more comfortable to make.
Liu Ye created a wooden platform arrow shooter, which could launch 200 arrows at once by igniting the fused gunpowder behind the arrows platform.
The wooden platform weapon was a wheeled cart with 200 tubes. It was 150cm tall and over three meters in length. The width was over a meter, and the platform dimension was 50cm x 80cm.
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Liu Ye brought his new invention and presented it to Tong and Liu Xie in Ye City's throne room. Although he kowtowed to both of them, his eyes were gleaming with pride and joy.
”Your majesty, your highness, I wish to present this new invention for you.”
Liu Xie's eyes brighten in excitement, misunderstanding that this was a big toy.
”What's this called?”
”This is my prototype arrow cannon, your highness. This thing can shoot a hundred arrows at once with only a few crew members. The distance is also longer than the standard repeating crossbows!”
”Eh? A tool of war, huh?”
Liu Xie was disappointed. He thought that it would have been something that he could play, but it was just another weaponry.
The young boy was not fond of war and conflicts. As his mother died because of it, it left a scar in his mind. As a result, he hated wars.
Seeing the reaction of the prince, Liu Ye was disappointed. Then, he realized that Liu Xie was not matured enough to handle military warfare and official meetings.
Subconsciously, Liu Ye glanced at the new emperor in the golden robe, Tong.
Opposite from Liu Xie, Tong stared at the tool with widened eyes, impressed by the machine.
Tong recognized the machine structure. It was similar to Korea's invention, the hwacha.
A hwacha was a gunpowder-fused arrow launcher, used by Koreans in the 15th-century. During the period, Koreans utilized this with their fortification to repel the Japanese invaders and pirates.
Hwacha machines demonstrated their power in the 16th-century as 3,000 Korea soldiers and 40 hwachas managed to repel the invader army of 30,000 Japanese samurais in the Battle of Haengju.
For a non-cannon weapon, this hwacha worked best in ancient warfare where soldiers grouped together in a large army. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
”What's your name, scholar?”
”M-My humble self is Liu Ye, Liu Ziyang, your majesty!”
”Oho! That explains a lot.”
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