In the courtyard of Nuoda, craftsmen are working everywhere.

Probably because they had been by the fire for a long time, these craftsmen looked all covered in a kind of crimson, and their physique was stronger, even stronger than Zhao Kuo. Zhao Kuo stood here, watching the craftsmen busy seriously, the craftsmen here are all Qin Mo, Lü Buwei gave this courtyard to the mallet, let the mallet summon the outstanding Qin Mo from all over the Qin State, and then tell them the latest royal decree.

The idea of the King of Qin was to get them out of production and develop more practical things for the Qin State wholeheartedly.

However, there are still not many craftsmen who can gather together with the hammer, he just gathered more than forty people, and these forty or so people are the outstanding disciples of Qin Mo, over the years, what Qin Mo has done is to continue to cultivate more craftsmen, and they can't absorb these craftsmen, because the ink artist is not a craftsman organization, this is an academic faction, and the craftsman alone is not enough to become an ink master, but also needs to accept the ideas of the ink person.

Qin Mo's academic achievements have long declined, and even those core disciples don't know words, people like this obviously have no way to engage in academic research anymore, and they can only realize their ideals through the technology in their own hands, and assist Qin State to end this endless conquest. When they first arrived in the Qin State, they also brought a lot of advanced technology to the Qin State, but the Qin State did not allow the technology to be kept private, and the ink masters could only choose to teach others, and they had to teach them.

When all the technology is leaked, the inkers lose the conditions they can use to secure their position.

They gradually became the lowest craftsmen, no different from other craftsmen, if they must say their differences, it is probably that they do not care about the title, but the people of the world. This is the reason why the other two schools of ink scholars do not recognize Qin Mo very much, because they are no longer quite like an academic school. How can a group of craftsmen who only know how to make tools be called a school?

Under the influence of the Qin State, Qin Mo's pursuit was no longer to develop more novel inventions, but to tend to improve agricultural tools and ordnance, how to make tools more quickly, and how to save raw materials more quickly, which became the direction of the ink scholars. And Zhao Kuo felt that it was a little inappropriate to let a group of inventors do these things. However, not all ink artists can produce as many amazing inventions as Mozi does.

After gathering these ink writers, the hammer studied diligently in the courtyard, and Lü Buwei also did what he said, no matter what the hammer needed, he could deliver it to him as quickly as possible, and the hammer asked for a lot of wood, including all kinds of trees, and he also asked for some fishing nets, cloth, and asked for twenty strong young men to help him. Zhao Kuo saw a lot of discarded bark, branches, and even leaves in the courtyard.

He vaguely remembered that paper was made from things like tree bark, fishing nets, and cloth, and the mallet accepted his suggestion and tried to make it from these things, and he tried many methods, including beating, roasting, soaking, etc., and after constantly experimenting with various kinds of wood, the mallet set his sights on a plant, bamboo. He found that soaking the bamboo with lime water made the bamboo soft and almost mud-like.

He wondered if if he could dry this thing and make paper.

He did so, but in the end, the experiment failed, and when he mashed the bamboo into mud, and then dried it, the mud dried and cracked apart, not to mention writing, even if he picked it up, and the mallet thought that maybe he could add something else to increase the degree of solidification, so he had to carry out more and more experiments. Zhao Kuo would often come here to see the progress of the mallet.

At this time, Zheng Guo, who had just been appointed and dismissed as a subordinate of the prime minister and was in charge of water conservancy projects, proposed that Qin State could build a canal and use this channel to irrigate a large area of cultivated land in Qin, and according to his estimates, he felt that he could irrigate more than 40,000 hectares of cultivated land. This sentence is really frightened by the King of Qin, 40,000 hectares?? So how much work should this channel be?

The King of Qin asked Lü Buwei what he thought.

Lü Buwei thinks: For this matter, you can ask Li Bing, the Taishou of Shu County, in the Qin State, he is the only person who is good at water conservancy, and he should know the pros and cons. The king of Qin ordered Zheng Guo to write a detailed plan and the materials needed in all aspects, and Zheng Guo immediately left Xianyang and rushed to Beishan, Jingyang, Sanyuan and other areas to conduct field investigations again. Zheng Guo is a typical old-fashioned engineer.

In his eyes, he probably only has his own project, and the manpower and materials used are not in his plan, all he wants to do is to do the project he wants to complete, and other things are not in his consideration, he absolutely does not agree to change his plan slightly in order to save manpower and material resources, if he wants to start construction, then it must be done, to do a good job, people like him, only Qin Guo can accept him.

Because the Qin State itself is like this, people of different classes do different things, and if it is not their own duty, they should not interfere, Zheng Guo's thinking is still quite in line with the values of the Qin State, and after five months of field investigations, he finally came up with a detailed policy book, which detailed the standards for the area through which the channel will flow, the area that can be irrigated, the length, the cost, and more detailed engineering content.

The king of Qin sent this bamboo slip to Shu County for Li Bing to inspect.

Such a big project, no country will be in a hurry to start construction, unless it can verify its correctness, can determine the results, will start, in Qin, even more so, if Zheng Guo arbitrarily come up with a plan to let Qin State start construction, it is impossible, because Qin State also has people who are good at water conservancy construction, as well as officials who have been engaged in water conservancy for a long time, these people can see the general direction of the plan, and the cost of it.

If the cost is too large, but it does not bring more than the cost of the project, then such a project is absolutely not allowed.

Zhao Kuo vaguely remembered that in history, the king of Han sent Zheng Guo to build water conservancy for Qin, which was to consume Qin's strength and make Qin State busy with forced labor, and there was no way to do anything to the Six Kingdoms. Zhao Kuo now felt that King Han's move was too stupid, if Zheng Guo came up with a plan that did not benefit the Qin State much and would only consume his national strength, then the Qin State would not start to build it at all.

Because the Qin people are not stupid, it is not just Zheng Guo who can engage in water conservancy in the world.

And if Zheng Guo came up with a project that could allow the King of Qin to temporarily put aside his conquest of the Six Kingdoms and would rather spend huge manpower and material resources to complete it, how much benefit would such a project have to Qin State? This is self-evident.

South Korea is a country that probably has bad feng shui, and there have been some not-so-smart kings in a row.

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"Oh no, king... King... You can send soldiers to greet the people in the five cities of Zhao State, and let these people come to Yan Country to enrich the strength of Yan Kingdom, which is okay. Because this is the people of Zhao State who voluntarily ran to Yan Kingdom, even if King Zhao knew it, there was no way to send people to attack Yan Kingdom and take away those people, because if they could run once, they could continue to run again, which was completely unreasonable. ”

"But if you send soldiers into these cities and turn these cities into the land of Yan, then the king of Zhao will definitely send people to attack Yan, and the minister heard: form an alliance with people at the checkpoints, and give five hundred gold to other people's kings to drink, and the envoys will just return and tear up the covenant, enter their cities, and take away their land, which is inauspicious and cannot be won!"

"I ask you not to send people into the cities of Zhao, we can take the people away and leave the empty cities to the Zhao people... I heard that Zhao is busy changing the law, but the people have defected, they will not attack us, and with these people, it is also a great benefit to the Yan country, we can move them to Liaodong, give them arable land, and let the Hu people there become our people as soon as possible...", Jiang Qu knelt in front of the young Yan King, and pleaded bitterly.

Yan Wangxi looked a little irritable, he was very angry, looked at the general in front of him, and accused: "The widow's eldest father, King Wucheng, sent Li Bao and others to attack Zhao State, using hundreds of thousands of soldiers and spending millions of stone of food, but he was not able to capture a city, and he did not bring any benefits to Yan State. After the widow ascended the throne, he could get five cities out of thin air without spending troops, and hundreds of thousands of Zhao people came to serve the widow because of the widow's kindness. ”

"How can you persuade the widows to abandon these cities?"

"If on weekdays, the widow asks you to attack the Zhao Kingdom, can you capture five cities for the Yan Kingdom?"

Jiang Qu was stunned for a moment, and then continued: "Great King, the strength of the Yan Kingdom is not strong, if the King of Zhao sends Lian Po to attack the Yan Kingdom, how should the Yan Kingdom resist him?" You are at odds with the Zhao State today for a few cities, if the Zhao people kill the Yan Kingdom, what should we do? King Yan sneered, he shook his head, and said disdainfully: "I heard that after Ma Fujun left, the people of Zhao were panicked, and the soldiers had no will to fight, how could you conclude that the Yan Kingdom had failed?" ”

He also said: "Zhao State is now the weakest time, if the King of Zhao insists on going to war, the widow is not afraid of him, not to mention, as you said, Zhao State is busy changing the law, and there is no strength to crusade against Yan State." ”

The general on the side, Ji Xing, said seriously: "King, in the past, General Lejian once said: Zhao is a country that fights on all sides, and his people are familiar with military affairs, so they can't fight. When King Yan heard this, he became even more angry, and he said: "As the general of Yan State, how can you brag about Zhao State?" Do you also want to betray the Yan Kingdom like Rakuma? ”

Ji Xing didn't speak again, shaking his head helplessly.

King Yan looked at them coldly, and then said: "The widow will personally take the soldiers of the Yan Kingdom into the city, if Lian Po dares to fight, the widow will cut off his head!" With that, King Yan got up and walked towards the palace gate, Jiang Qu was shocked, and hurriedly stepped forward, tightly pulling the ribbon around King Yan's waist, and he said eagerly: "The king must not go in person, the war is dangerous, and your son is not an adult!" ”

King Yan was furious, kicked on Jiang Qu's body, Jiang Qu is such a thin old man, where can he withstand such an attack, he immediately fell to the ground, unable to breathe, Ji Xing hurriedly stepped forward to check the situation of Jiang Qu, after King Yan kicked Jiang Qu, his eyes were full of disgust, and he said disdainfully: "Cowardly old thief!" After speaking, he left here without looking back, and Jiangqu gasped and said with tears: "I'm not for myself, I'm for the king." ”

"Don't go, King... Don't go. ”

Ji Xing grabbed Jiang Qu's arm, helped him up, Jiang Qu gasped in pain, Ji Xing said angrily: "Even the common people in the countryside will not do anything to people older than themselves, you are the same age as his eldest father, he actually treats you like this...", Jiang Qu hurriedly stretched out his hand, pulled him, and said seriously: "Please go to Zhao Di and prepare for the battle, I am really worried that Lian Po will destroy the Yan Kingdom..."

As Jiang Qu had predicted, when the king of Zhao learned that the king of Yan had arrived with his army and accepted the cities that had surrendered to him, he was furious and immediately ordered Lian Po to raise an army and attack the Yan state.

When King Yan heard that, he took the drama as his general, and led the partial division of Yan to face Lian Po.

Ju Xing did not send troops, waiting for Lian Po to come in Wusui, but King Yan thought that his behavior was afraid of Lian Po, and asked him to send troops immediately, Ju Xing had no choice but to take the soldiers to kill the hinterland of Zhao State, King Yan marched behind him with a partial division, in Zhongren City, the two sides encountered, Lian Po personally drove the chariot into the Chinese army of Yan State, and divided the main force of Yan State into two, outflanked and cut off contact.

And King Yan, who was marching in the rear, hurried back to the army with a partial division because of fear.

The drama was defeated, and fled to Wusui with the remnants of the army, Lian Po Xing's troops pursued, and the army of Yan was like a frightened flock, constantly fleeing, and Lian Po was in hot pursuit. This war went on very quickly, and there were not even any ups and downs, it was completely the unilateral crushing of Zhao State, the elites of Zhao State who had been working with Qin State all the year round, when they were at war with Yan State, even if they did not have the high-pitched will to fight as before, they still beat the troops temporarily recruited from all over Yan State to their heads.

And General Lian Po fought bravely and commanded properly, which was also not something that Ji Xing could stop.

The war between the two sides, at the moment of contact, the Yan State failed, Lian Po only used a charge, and the Yan army was in chaos, the soldiers dropped their weapons and ran, Ji Xing had no way to control them, and several orders of Ji Xing, the soldiers could not carry them out, and Ji Xing could only watch his own army collapse at the touch of a button. As for the partial division in the rear, it has long been gone.

In this way, Lian Po drove the sheep and killed the capital of Yan Kingdom.

ps: King Yan didn't listen, and he would follow the army. The ditch will lead the king's scarf, and the king will kick it with his feet. Jiang Qu wept and said: "The minister is not self-sufficient, but also the king!" "——Information Governance Guide