It's been a few days since I entered Xianyang, but the ranger still feels very unaccustomed. There are no chaotic markets and murderers who deceive the good and fear the evil, and every street and market is orderly and orderly; There are no arrogant and arrogant rich people here, and their cars have to keep to the left after driving into the city, and they do not have the kind of domineering cars driven by the private cars of the six countries of the Kanto region; The people here are simple and thrifty, and the prostitutes are full of prostitutes, and only businessmen from the six countries enter and exit......

The only thing that makes Evil come a little uncomfortable is that there are no liquor stores in the city, so you can't buy alcohol. Senior brother Xia Yang said that the Qin law prohibits the sale of wine by the people, and wine is the five grains, which is the food of all people, and the grains are precious, so how can they be used to make wine. Evil is a rough man, he never thought that wine came from this way, and suddenly felt a little guilty, he drank a lot of wine in his life, and he didn't know how much food he wasted.

"Since the beginning of King Zhou You, the countries of the world have been crusading continuously, the war has not stopped, and the people of Li have been miserable and mournful. Juzi said: 'The ancestor Mozi once said: If 10,000 people die in a year because of the war, then more than 5 million people have died so far. Therefore, Juzi said: "There are only 20 million people in the world, not only war, but only one of the two." The ambition of the ink artist should enable the people of the world to practice the avenue and love non-attack. But how can you love both? All the people are the sons of one king, and the people are able to love both; Why not? The world is the king of a king, and the land can be non-attacked. ’

In the past, the ancestor Mozi instructed my disciples to practice righteousness: 'If you build a wall, those who can build it, those who can build it, those who can build it will build it, those who can make it solid will be happy, and then the wall will be built. For righteousness, those who can talk about debate talk about it, those who can tell stories tell stories, those who can engage in it will do it, and then the righteous deeds will come true. 'It has been more than 100 years since the first Juzi belly yellow re-entered Qin. The fourth virtuous monarch of the Great Qin Dynasty changed the law to become strong, and finally made the ugly country the overlord of the world. Now that Great Qin has the potential to dominate the world, I should do everything I can to help it become righteous......"

Xianyang Xia family mansion, junior brother Xia Yang followed the good and temptation, and introduced the Mo family's original story of helping Qin and the struggle of the Mo family in the past dynasties. For a rough person who is jealous and hateful, chivalrous and righteous, this is tantamount to enlightenment, evil feels that the blood on his body has boiled, and he feels that he is in a bright sunshine. He is fortunate and happy, yesterday, he drew his sword alone, and today he will draw his sword for all the people of the world.

"Please tell Yu Juzi that the evil is willing to join the Qin army and help the King of Qin rule the world!" In the excitement, the evil came to Xia Yang suddenly, and his arm was full of strength, so that just the action was made, and the bone joints also made a loud sound.

"No, no." Xia Yang was not surprised by the excitement of the evil coming, and he replied, "Juzi has sent me to the Six Kingdoms to buy the things that the Qin State urgently needs. However, the younger brother is weak and sparse, and the swordsmanship is difficult to achieve, and the Kanto region is not as good as the Qin State, so he needs to fight the sword of the senior brother. ”

"Okay...... Itinerant trader? "Evil is a little stupid, he used to rob merchants.

"Exactly." Xia Yang smiled, "The ancestor of the younger brother, Ji Tang, was once sealed in Liangdi, with Liang as his surname, and the destruction of the country was first attributed to Man, then to Chu, then to Jin, then to Zhou, and finally to Qin. Although he is a prince, he has to be a merchant for his livelihood, so he has to be entrusted by Xiangbang to enter the Six Kingdoms to do business for my Great Qin. ”

Xia Yang is quite proud of his clan, he is not a common man with no surname and no name. Evil didn't realize the pride in his words, and only regretted that he couldn't join the army, he said, "Can the junior brother find someone else to help?" I want to go back to the pavilion to ask my senior brother to say to Juzi on his behalf, and ask to join the army to help King Qin rule the world. ”

"It doesn't matter." Xia Yang didn't mind the evil request, and sent him away respectfully after lunch.

The evil came to see the senior brother and go well, but the good went at this time not in the hotel, but in the Shaofu.

“…… Jing Zhi's strong crossbow shot more than 300 steps, and the arrows issued by the martial arts flew over the city wall and landed in the moat. Jun Xuan valued it, asked people to draw its picture, and asked me to bring it into Xianyang. ”

The Shaofu of the Qin State is not an ordinary institution, the Shaofu is in charge of the palace finances, the second is in charge of the state seal documents, the third is in charge of the palace sundries, and the four palms are handmade. Shanwen came here because he had the strong crossbow of the Chu State, and Yan Wuyi, the great son of the Mo family, was the chief engineer of the Shaofu and was responsible for the manufacture of all weapons in the Qin State.

"Shoot a crossbow of more than 300 steps...... "Although Yan Wuyi has a knighthood, he is still dressed like an ink man: he is dressed in a black kudzu coat with patches, grass shoes instead of leather, and his hands holding brocade silk are covered with calluses." The height is more than one zhang, with the rope as the string, it is indeed different from the Korean crossbow, it can be known that the crossbow arm is made of wood? ”

At first, Xuan thought that the ballista was the same as other bows and crossbows, and the power was all dependent on the crossbow arm, so he inquired about what the crossbow arm was made of, and finally heard that it was Nanmu used for the crossbow arm, and the Nanmu was a hardwood, lacking elasticity, and suddenly felt that there must be ingenuity. Indeed, a normal bow and crossbow are charged with the bending of wood, while the ballista is charged with the twisting of the tendons in the case, and the power of the two is completely different. It's a pity that when Xuan figured this out, Shango had already left Yingdu.

It's just that there are a lot of talented people in the Mo family, even if it is a floor plan, the great engineer Ye Tunnel can still see some doorways.

"Although the rope is the string, I am afraid that the wood is not the arm." Ye Tunnel said, "If you use wood as an arm, why do you cut it into two sections? ”

"Zi Tunnel thought it was ......" This is already a technical discussion, and Ju Ziyan also found a problem after a closer look, the crossbow arm was cut off and could not be charged.

"Do you know what the crossbow string is made of?" Ye Tunnel asked Xiang Shan, he felt that the article should be on the crossbow string, and it was relying on the crossbow string to accumulate power.

"The Jing people are very well fortified, and I can't see them, so Jun Xuan has to ask me to bring them back with a strong crossbow. Juzi looks at whether it is easy to build, it is not easy, Jue Jun has sent people to the side of the prince of Jing, and he still can't, so he should ask the prince of Xiangbang Suo Jing to hostage Qin. "Shango and tell Xuan the original words, which were given to him with Tu at that time. When he went out, he happened to meet the villager who had no choice but to steal, and the evil came to insist on saving him.

"What do you have to do with the prince of thorns?" Ye Tunnel was dressed like a juzi, and he didn't understand how a strong crossbow would be related to Prince Jing.

"This crossbow was made by the Prince of Thorns. The first simple work was dedicated to King Jing, saying that it could shoot 300 steps, Wang Fuxin, and then made a physical object, and tried it in the martial arts, which was a letter. Shango said the news that Yingdu heard, and finally smiled: "King Jing is faint, and he also believed in the past." ”

The good joke only allowed himself to laugh dryly, and the expressions of Juzi and the master began to be serious. If the information is true, a prince can make a strong crossbow, doesn't this mean that these people, as well as tens of thousands of craftsmen in Shaofu, are eating rice.

"Is it really made by Prince Jing?" Yan Wuyi asked, "Does it have the help of the Lu people?" ”

In terms of carpentry, in addition to the Naimo family, there is also a public loss class in the world, so Yan Wuyi has this question.

"I don't know." Shan went to shake his head, "I only heard that the prince of Jing was born, his body was extremely long, and his legs were like thorns, so he was called Jing, and he had not yet begun to do so." ”

"Not yet?" Ye Tunnel smiled, "This crossbow must have been made by the Lu people, and the name of Prince Jing is also false." ”

As soon as Ye Tunnel said 'the name of the false prince of Jing', he had some enlightenment. The two princes of Chu competed for the prince, and the name of the prince of Jing was to compete for the prince. He smiled and said, "It should be so, it should be so, how can a boy with hanging hair make a crossbow that is high?" The competition for the crown prince in Jing is intensifying, and the ministers are deceiving me, not as good as me Qin, the king is virtuous, and the courtiers are loyal. The disciple heard that the king was crowned this month, and he wanted to ......"

"Ahem...... Yan Wuyi coughed suddenly, interrupting Shango's words. You and the evil come to the Xianyang Hotel is more inconvenient, to my house, last year's farewell, Junan often thinks about when you will come again. ”

Ju Nan is Yan Wuyi's youngest daughter, only seven years old. Yan Wuyi's family are all ink scholars, his parents and brothers usually don't smile, only his uncle treats people gently, and is good at telling stories about the world's anecdotes and chivalrous things, so he often talks about them when they meet. Of course, letting Shan go to live in his own house is not for someone to tell his daughter about the wonders of the world. Although Yan Wuyi is in Xianyang Shaofu, and his usual dealings are wood, stone, copper and iron, he also knows that the Qin State is now overwhelmed by wind and rain

——The twenty-second year of the Great King, according to the tradition of the Qin State, it is time to be crowned. The crown is pro-government, and the pro-government will take back power from some people, will these people really hand over all the power? Because of this, the king of Changping held the secret order of King Qin in the previous month and personally came to Shaofu to receive a batch of weapons. The rebellion is coming, Xianyang City is loose outside and tight inside, the mobilization of soldiers and horses is very secret, and he is really not at ease when he goes to the residence.

"Yui." He was alert, he had noticed something, but he didn't ask much, and when he finished speaking, he immediately took his leave.

After he left, Yan Wuyi sighed, turned his head and saw that Ye Tunnel was still looking at the picture, and couldn't help asking, "Can it be made?" ”

"No, I don't know what the bowstring is made of." Ye Tunnel shook his head very dryly. "You can hand it over to a Korean engineer and give it a try."

*

"Yin Huiling of Chen County, there is no black soil and stone in his county." Thousands of miles away in the Lantai of Chu State, a corner of the library that used to compile the Book of Mountains and Seas was swept away, and the disciples of the crown and the brothers of Xiong Jing were reporting on the situation of finding coal in the counties of the Chu State - after the divination of the Taimiao, the king of Chu fasted and did not dare to divinate again, so he only let Xiong Jing worship the crown as a teacher.

"Ejun replied to the order, and there was no black soil and stone in Ezhou."

"Zhongli Cheng Yin returned the order, and there was no black earth and stone."

……

The search for 'black soil and stones' was the result of the search for 'black soil and stones' was persuaded by the Sanlu doctor to ask the counties in the name of the Lantai Academy, and the results were not optimistic, and most of the more than 100 cities in the Chu State had replied that they had not seen black soil and stones;

"Black earth and stone so important?" Ku Guanzi looked at his closed disciple, quite puzzled, Xiong Jing only said that the shipyard needed a lot of black earth and stone to build an embankment.

"It's very important." Xiong Jing was making tea for his cheap master, and the old man wanted to drink it every day after drinking it twice. "Wood and copper, so that the world has a bell and a halberd, has been used for thousands of years; Coal and iron are far beyond that, and thousands of years later will be the world of medium iron. ”

The skills of utensils are not taught or understood; The hundreds of schools of thought do not understand Xiong Jing. The two seem to be masters and apprentices, but they are actually teachers and friends. Hearing that Xiong Jing Coal and Iron were mentioned, he was surprised and said, "Black earth and stone can smelt evil iron? ”