Compared with the last time when he hurriedly arrived at Xianyang City to show off his strength, Zhao Hongrun was finally able to visit the new capital of Qin State this time. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In fact, when Zhao Ran, Wei Ying and other Xianyang nobles had not yet gone out of the city to greet them, Zhao Hongrun chatted with Weiyang Jun Yinghua, Yangquan Jun Yingyi, Lantian Jun Yingqi and others, while observing the city wall of Xianyang.

The city wall of Xianyang is really high, higher than any county town in Wei State, a full ten zhang, or even nearly twenty zhang high, and how high is the highest well car built by the Wei army?

Twelve!

Therefore, it has to be said that the towering city wall of Xianyang is a very severe test for any army that tries to attack.

And this is also one of the reasons why Weiyang Jun Yinghua sacrificed more than 60,000 troops and did not capture Feng Hao, and Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi led more than 100,000 soldiers and horses did not capture Xia Tai - although the city walls of Feng Hao and Xia Tai are not as high as Xianyang, but there are also more than ten zhang of city walls, as long as there is not a huge disparity in the strength of the offensive and defensive sides, otherwise, it is indeed difficult to conquer this kind of city.

Through Zhao Hongrun's observation, he found that the city walls of Xianyang were basically built with large stone bricks five feet long and three feet wide and high, and the gap between the two bricks and stones was very small.

After his side knocks, he realized that the Qin people had long known how to use lime as a cementitious material for building materials, which was only one step away from cement.

There is no way, the mineral deposits of the eight hundred miles of Qinling are too rich, and the background of Qin in terms of mineral deposits is not comparable to that of a Central Plains country like Wei, which has few mountains in its territory.

However, in general, the Qin State is still generally poor, as far as Zhao Hongrun knows, the Qin people built Xianyang, it took a full thirteen years, and used the labor force of 400,000 civilian lowly households, which made Zhao Hongrun secretly shake his head: The construction efficiency is too low!

With the same time and the same labor, Zhao Hongrun could even build a Great Wall enclosing the entire territory of Wei with the current cement in Wei, or pave a road network on at least seventy percent of the land in Wei.

Stepping into the city, Zhao Hongrun's evaluation of the general grandeur of the buildings of the Qin State immediately disappeared without a trace, because after passing through the city gate, he looked at the buildings in the city, which were generally very ordinary civil engineering houses, and some were simply grass houses, which made Zhao Hongrun feel that he did not come to the royal capital of the Qin State, but came to a small mountain village.

Probably noticing Zhao Hongrun's expression, the eldest chief Zhao Ran explained in a low voice: "This is a cheap place, a place where ordinary people live. ”

Zhao Hongrun nodded and didn't say anything.

According to his knowledge of the system of the Qin State, he felt that the system of the Qin State was really strange.

On the one hand, the class system of the Qin State was as harsh as that of the Chu State, dividing the lowest level of commoners into two types: the nobles and the untouchables, and the lords were the commoners with titles, such as the most junior public servants in the military merit system.

Only the common people who have meritorious titles can enjoy the protection of the laws of the Qin State, even if they are the upper nobles of the Qin State, they cannot wantonly harm the people and rob the property of the people.

Comparatively speaking, those who do not have any merit are called pariahs, and their status is no different from that of slaves.

The Qin army, which made the Wei army quite fearful, at least seventy percent of the black-faced army was composed of these undignified families who were eager to improve their social status through their military exploits.

According to the harsh Qin law, the untouchables had no personal freedom, were not allowed to own land, were not allowed to own personal property, and it was strictly forbidden for the untouched to marry with the lords - if such a thing happened, one of the parties would be deprived of the status of the lords - and it is no exaggeration to say that the Qin were even harsher than the Chu state in this regard.

But from another point of view, the Qin State did not exclude the lowly households from being promoted to the lords and even among the nobles by virtue of their military merits, and even the Qin State vigorously advocated it.

The degree of openness of the Qin State in this regard is even more enlightened than that of the Wei State, at least in the Wei State, even if the commoners obtain the status of nobility, they will not be able to truly integrate into the circle of the old nobles in a short time.

But it is this harsh and enlightened strange Qin law that makes the Qin people, who are already fierce, more advocating military merits, and everyone is eager to improve their social status step by step on the battlefield by constantly obtaining military merits, which makes the Qin State become a fierce beast, and the whole people support the country's continuous external expansion.

The Wei State was not afraid of war, while the Qin State was eager for war, and this sentence alone is enough to show the mentality of the people of the two countries.

Of course, the so-called Qin State's desire for war refers to constantly winning wars, as long as they can win wars and obtain enough war benefits, whether it is Xianyang or the people, they will ignore the number of people who died in the war, but if they meet Wei Gonggongrun, a person who makes them defeat the war again and again, then the Qin people will be stunned.

Just like the last two wars of Wei and Qin, the Qin State did not gain any war benefits, and hundreds of thousands of people died in vain, this kind of unprofitable war, whether it is nobles or commoners, is unwilling to continue.

Along the spacious street that could accommodate ten carriages in parallel, Zhao Hongrun and his entourage, under the guidance of Zhao Ran and Wei Ying, rode horses deep into the city.

On either side of this wide avenue, a row of Qin soldiers with spears stood in check, restraining the refugees crowded together in the alleys and houses along the way.

Obviously, the reason why this street is so wide is because the Qin soldiers drove the refugees who originally lived on the street with sheds to other places.

Fortunately, when those refugees were forced to leave Fenghao, Xiaqi and other cities, the Wei army did not treat them too fiercely, let alone wantonly slaughter, which made these refugees look at Zhao Hongrun and these Wei people calmly, so that Zhao Hongrun was not like when Zhao Hongrun passed through a city and county that had been looted by the Northern First Army before attacking Pijiao Pass, and was thrown by a local child when he was thrown stones.

But on the whole, the eyes of these refugees looking at Zhao Hongrun and these Wei people are still full of unkindness and hostility.

Objectively speaking, this is the purpose of the intention of the Wei and Qin sides to marry, through the marriage of the two royal families, to eliminate both sides - at present, the main thing is to eliminate the hostility of the Qin people to the Wei people, who let the Wei army fight to the Qin country.

Looking at the bleak looks and haggard faces of those refugees, Zhao Hongrun felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

After all, he has always pursued the principle of letting civilians go away in war, and even if he is attacking a country, he will not persecute the civilians of that country, but this time, he acquiesced to Sima An's massacre of the civilians of the tribes in Sanchuan who did not want to submit to the Wei state, and also expelled the civilians of the Qin state from their homes.

Is this because of the anxiety caused by the danger of the collapse of the Wei state, or because of the anger caused by the death of the sixth uncle?

Zhao Hongrun was also a little dazed in his heart.

The procession continued towards Xianyang Palace, and gradually, the nearby buildings changed their appearance, no longer ordinary earthen and thatched houses, but houses made of neat bricks and stones, and the closer they got to the mansions of Xianyang Palace, the more elaborate their architecture became.

It is not difficult to guess that Zhao Hongrun and others have come to the mansions of the nobles in Xianyang City, but even these exquisite noble mansions are far from the noble mansions of the Wei State, and the noble mansions of the Qin State have only one characteristic: big!

In addition to the large characteristic, the architecture of the Qin State is generally very simple, such as the palace gate of the Xianyang Palace that Zhao Hongrun just passed, the palace wall, it is simply a wall, unlike the Bianjing Palace of the Great Liang of the Wei State, the outside of the palace wall is carved with lifelike mountain and river scenery paintings, flowers, birds, fish and insects.

Simple and practical, a little less fancy and a little more reliable, perhaps this is also the characteristic of Qin architecture.

But anyway, when Zhao Hongrun and others came to the main palace of Xianyang Palace, they were still shocked, because the palaces in Xianyang Palace are generally high-platform buildings, especially the main palace, and the foundation is as high as more than ten zhang.

For this reason, Princess Yulong, who was extremely shocked, secretly asked Qin Shaojun if the foundation of the main palace was originally a hill.

When Qin Shaojun told her that it was a gathering of soil to form a platform, Princess Yulong couldn't understand it at all: Why bother to build a high platform first, isn't it good to build a palace directly on flat ground?

Although it was impossible to understand the cultural outlook of the Qin people, the high-rise buildings of the Qin State still made Zhao Hongrun and other Wei people feel very shocked, and they faintly felt that there was a majestic and majestic breath rushing to their faces.

While looking around, Zhao Hongrun took the lead in stepping up the stone steps, and when he climbed the high platform, he saw King Qin wearing a black royal robe, a sword tied around his waist, and standing outside the main palace with his hands behind his back.

It must be admitted that even if King Qin just went out of the palace to greet him, it can be regarded as giving Zhao Hongrun enough face, after all, Zhao Hongrun's status in Wei is a minister, not a prince, but King Qin is the monarch of Qin.

And not far from the King of Qin, Zhao Hongrun saw their envoy from the Wei State to the Qin State this time, Du You, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

All the people behind Zhao Hongrun, whether they were Wei or Qin, all stopped at this time and watched Zhao Hongrun slowly walk towards the King of Qin alone.

At this time, King Qin also left behind his ministers and entourage and walked over alone.

The two stopped at a distance of about a zhang and looked at each other.

Seeing this scene, Qin Shaojun couldn't help but be a little nervous, because she knew very well that King Qin and Zhao Hongrun were both stubborn tempers that refused to show weakness to others, and she was very worried about whether there would be any conflict between the two, after all, as far as she knew, Zhao Hongrun had led the Wei army to Xianyang City a while ago.

As it turned out, her fears were completely unnecessary.

"In Xia Ji Run, meet His Majesty King Qin." After observing King Qin up close, Zhao Hongrun clasped his fists, looked directly at the latter, and bowed slightly.

In all fairness, the King of Qin was not very satisfied with Zhao Hongrun's gesture of giving a salute, because the latter looked directly at him from beginning to end, as if to say: I salute you only because you are the king of Qin.

King Qin had never met such an arrogant young man.

But despite this, there was still a slight smile on his face.

After all, even if he was bound by the number of etiquette, the prince of Wei in front of him, who almost forced his Qin State to a dead end, had to perform the junior ceremony, which made him feel inexplicably good.

Of course, that is, Zhao Hongrun, if someone else saluted King Qin so arrogantly, I am afraid that he would have kicked him to the ground.

This kid has the qualifications to be arrogant in front of him!

"The widow has ordered someone to prepare a banquet in the palace and drink with Run Gongzi. …… Please! ”

"His Majesty King Qin, please first."

Under Qin Shaojun's stunned gaze, King Qin put his left hand on Zhao Hongrun's right wrist, made an inviting move, and invited Zhao Hongrun into the main hall.

Not to mention Qin Shaojun, even Zhao Ran, Wei Ying, Weiyang Jun Yinghua, Yangquan Jun Yingyi, Lantian Jun Yingqi and other Qin people were very surprised: When did the king of his own family become so good-tempered?

And in front of everyone, King Qin invited Zhao Hongrun into the palace while looking back at this junior from time to time.

…… Not bad indeed.

He said secretly in his heart.