For Qin Wangzheng, September is almost a flash, and he is finally getting married after a year of crowning. For the marriage of the king, Xianyang City has also been in major events in the past few months, especially the Qutai Palace, the Liuying Palace, and the pavilion of the royal palace, which have almost been redecorated again. Pepper wall, cuiping, zhumen, kyomat, bead quilt, bedclothes, Qiyun, and even Lanhui flowers, furnishing landscapes, treasures and strange ......, everything is no different from the Shouying Palace.

The harem is known to be run by the Empress Dowager Zu, state affairs, wars, convening courtiers, reviewing official affairs, Zhao Zheng is busy until midnight every day. It's just that the wedding date is getting closer and closer, and there are more and more affairs, and Shang Wu, a close confidant of the Empress Dowager Zu, interrupts more and more official business and tells those trivial things.

"The ...... of the Married Concubines" is a list written on Chu paper, which is the concubine of the princess of Chu State. Zhao Zheng looked at it, and for some reason found that there was one person missing, "Why is Mi Xuan missing?" ”

"The king, Mi Xuan is ill, and she can't catch up with the big wedding, so the Empress Dowager Zu will take her away." Shang Wu chuckled in his heart and hurriedly explained.

"Then let's wait for her to recover." The ministers in the Yan Dynasty were waiting, the wedding date, the color of the bedclothes, and the banquet of the guests, these trivial things should not have been concerned about Zhao Zheng, the king, but he was used to it, otherwise how to read the official document in the middle of the night.

After Zhao Zheng finished speaking, he walked back to the Yan Dynasty, and the Yan Dynasty's Imperial Lieutenant Feng Quji, Guowei Huanqi, Keqing Wei Yu, and many strategists from the Guowei Mansion were waiting. Seeing the king coming, Feng Quji reported: "The king, the king of Wei can't ask to see the king, and he sent an envoy to ask for the ...... of the Marquis of Wenxin."

After Lü Buwei left his post, he returned to his fiefdom of Hejian this year. Zhao Zheng remembered his support for his father, and he was merciful to him. It is important to know that the guests who are not relatives, such as Shang Ying and Fan Sui, although they have made great contributions to the Qin State, the end is still the car cracked and died. Lü Buwei's merits are not as good as Shang Ying and Fan Sui, but he has great merit to King Zhuangxiang, and the ending is similar to that of his relatives - when King Qin Zhaoxiang chased the four nobles, he also ordered him to leave the capital and go to the country, and never enter Xianyang again.

Hearing that the King of Wei sent an envoy to see the Marquis of Wenxin, Zhao Zheng's brows twisted unconsciously. "The middle father has already left his post, why did the king of Wei send an envoy to beg for help?"

"The king, there are many guests of the middle father, and there are many people in the court who have received his favors. A few months ago, Changping Jun was idle again, this, this ...... "Feng Quji is a neutral, not pro-Zhao or pro-Chu. The more he said, the more Zhao Zheng's brows twisted. He didn't expect that letting Changping Jun be idle actually gave Lu Buwei a glimmer of hope.

"The widow knows, step aside." Zhao Zheng's tone was extremely calm, only Wei Yi felt his killing intent, and he was sweating in his vest.

"Yui." Feng Qujian came here to report the matter, and after the matter was finished, he retreated.

"Chen Cheng's affairs are as you and others say." The military meeting that had been interrupted earlier was finally picked up by Zhao Zheng, who agreed to the plan of the Governor's Mansion. "The widow wants to ask: What day?"

When? Time is of the essence, it is invalid if it is early, and it is invalid if it is late. Huan Qi glanced at Wei Yu, and then at the rest of the counselors of the National Captain's Mansion, and said, "At the end of the month, before the king's wedding." ”

"Good!" Zhao Zheng suddenly laughed, married the princess of Chu State, and killed the king of Chu State, those Chu barbarians were about to cry. "What about Xiang Yan? Can Xiang Yan and others send troops to rescue each other? ”

"The king, the marquis has a report, the king of Jing wants to abolish the county officials, the state of Jing is in an uproar, and our army besieges the city and other counties should not save each other." Huan Qi briefly said that the internal situation of the Chu State at this time, and the proposal to abolish the county officials after a month of fermentation, aroused the collective opposition of the county Gongyi Yin. "Xiang Yan's army is the pawn of the county, if the county Sima is unwilling to save Chen Cheng, Xiang Yan will not be able to save Chen Cheng. And the king is far away in Muling, and he does not save the fire when he enters the water. ”

"Tell the king, if this strategy is successful, please inform General Xin Wu that there is no need to rush to kill King Jing. It can be coerced to order the Jing people, so that they can sacrifice the art of iron, the weapon of breaking the city, and the boat of big wings. With these three, the six countries can be destroyed in ten years. Wei Wei's vest was still sweating, but he wouldn't let go of the opportunity to speak, this was a credit, and if this thing was successful, he could also be promoted to the knighthood.

"Great goodness!" Zhao Zheng glanced around at the ministers and looked extremely satisfied. "Treat it as a widow."

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"Keel laid?" Chen Ying was sleeping, and Gong Yin Dao came out. The king is in charge of Chen Ying, and small things may be through Feixun, and he has to come in person for big things, such as building a sea boat.

The boat is made of wood, but it can never be cut down to build, it must be dried in the shade, the drier the better, only the moisture content is below 20 percent or even 15 percent, in order to completely eliminate the erosion of color-changing bacteria and decaying bacteria. The moisture content of the ship should be less than 12%, so that the possibility of deformation in the future is small. It is because the wood has to be dried in the shade before many ships are built, and it is dragged for several years when it is built, and it has to be dried in the dock. As for the drying ......, Xiong Jing really doesn't want to use it.

Drying is not simple, a few years to complete the work of ten days, one or two months to complete, the efficiency has indeed improved, but once the mistake is made, it is irreparable. For example, there is a high-power fan in the drying room, the position and air volume of the fan must be strictly calculated, and the stacking and clearance of the wood, the drying temperature, relative humidity and drying time of the wood are also strictly limited, so that the hot air can be evenly blown into the drying room, and the water loss rate of all parts of the wood is consistent.

Small ship materials may not matter, if the keel and ribs are not baked well, the ship material will be warped and twisted, and even cracked, and the surface will be hardened, and the loss caused will be incalculable. So Xiong Jing thought about it, and the only way to solve it was to demolish the palace. In the land of Chu, there are many nanmu, yellow wrywood, and cypress wood, which are all raw materials for building palaces. Because of the felling, the yellow tree is rare in later generations, and it is not as famous as Nanmu, but it is not worse than Nanmu to make ship materials, but cypress wood......

In later generations, the cypress wood in the East Asian continent seems to be extinct, only saying that the cypress in the mountains of Taiwan was basically cut down by the Japanese, and only some thousand-year-old trees are left - the best thing for shipbuilding is hardwood, but the hardwood is often hollow when it is old, and the oak trees that are most suitable for shipbuilding are generally 100 to 150 years old, and they are old in 200 years, and even more so in 1,000 years. Like a camphor tree locust tree, a millennium can move a table to the center of the tree to play mahjong.

The same goes for building a shipbuilding and building a palace. All columns, columns, beams, foreheads, bucket arches, these are all nanmu, yellow wood, cypress between hardwood and softwood, more eaves, whirl. The pillar is the center of gravity of the whole palace, tall and straight, standing in the palace for several years, it is best to use it as a keel. It's just that the diameter is a big problem, the length of the keel depends on the diameter of the keel, the diameter of the keel over twenty meters must be more than seventy centimeters, and it is better not to splic.

Taimiao, Shejitan, Zhengchao, Zhengyu (Yan Dynasty), Ruoying Palace, the pillars of these halls are more than four feet, but these palaces can not be demolished, the remaining pillars are not big or small, the keel of the big boat is too thin, and it is a pity to cut off the boat, so that in the end, the choice came and went, and two 75 Chu feet (16.76m) of the corridor column were selected as the keel.

When the keel is set, the ship is set. The whole ship is 24 meters long, 6 meters wide at its widest point, 2.8 meters deep, the draft does not exceed 1.8 meters, and the tonnage, according to the calculation of Xiongjing, is 120 tons, which is 10 tons less than Columbus's Santa Maria. The mast is a single mast and is designed with eight oars, so that the boat can paddle forward when there is no wind. According to the old tonnage crew ratio - about five to six tons of cargo with one crew, the whole ship has about twenty crew members.

This is standard, not that the entire ship can only fit twenty crew members. And the reason why the smallest column was chosen as the keel is because the two dhows have a practice nature. It takes practice to build a sailboat, to sew sails, to practice sailing, to sail and to sail ......, and to go to sea must be equipped with a dozen or even twenty more trainee sailors or trainee sailors.

"Tell the king, the keels of the two sea boats have been laid down on an auspicious day." Gong Yin Dao not only handed over the drawings, but also handed over the ship model, which is a model made by the shipyard. It's exquisite, better than what Xiong Jing did before.

"Good." Xiong Jing put down the ship model, "It will be ten months soon, and it will be completed in May next year?" ”

"If the king can personally supervise it, it should be completed." The construction of sea ships and large-wing warships is different, the most obvious is the wood bending process. The big wing warship still uses '煣', 煣 is to roast by fire, and the fire roasts it to make it boil, but the sea ship is not, and the sea ship cannot be boiled according to Xiong Jing's requirements, and it must be steamed. How to steam and how long to steam are particular, especially after steaming, the bending time is only a short quarter of an hour, and it will not work if it is exceeded.

There is also a copper-clad warboat, and the large-wing warship does not need to be covered with copper to prevent moths, but the sea ship needs it. The existing rolling mill of Zaofu and the ring sheet armor can roll qualified copper skins, but no one has ever done this how to wrap these copper skins.

The twenty-four-meter ship is three meters longer than the large-wing warship, but the large-wing warship is simple, that is, a hull, dozens of stool oars, and a flat deck on the top. The construction process of the sea boat is different, and it needs to be covered with copper skin, and it is necessary to erect a mast and hang a sail, and one of the two sea boats is designed as a single mast and the other is designed as a three-masted.

"I can't leave." Xiong Jing was a little helpless. "In autumn and winter, there is little water in the lake, and although the Qin army will not besiege Chen Ying, there are more areas to attack. The people of Chen County have been controlled by those county officials for too long, and most of them have become weak people. The Qin people killed, most of them only knew how to obey and kill, but they didn't know how to resist, and I ...... gone."

The tragedy that took place outside the northern city before the siege highlighted the role of the Yushi, who led the villagers to resist the Qin cavalry and protect the villagers. But Xiong Jing didn't see it that way, what he saw was that his people would rather jump into the water than resist in the face of the enemy, and trample on each other in the chaos, and no one could stand up, which was very distressing.

What is it called? It's called not being able to protect yourself! This is not far from the Song people who 'you have a mace, I have a heavenly spirit cover', but fortunately, no one has shouted 'good men are not soldiers, good iron is not nailed'. With Xiong Jing's understanding of the end of the Qing Dynasty, until the era of Zeng Guofan, soldiers were looked down upon, and the lyrics of the Hunan army's "Army Victory Song" were 'to protect you with many blessings and long lives', and it was not until the Qing court trained the new army that the status of the soldiers really improved.

"Dare to ask the king, what are the names of these two boats?" Gong Yin Dao was a little disappointed, so he had to smell the name of the ship.

"Let's call Shao Si Ming and Mrs. Xiang." Xiong Jing used the names of the gods, both of whom were goddesses.