The five hundred Qin soldiers were in high spirits.

The thousand people of Wei surrendered were carefully selected by Jin You, and at this time they all took a step back.

Jin You sighed and strode forward: "This one doesn't need to be compared, we have descended." Cowardice before fighting, it is already defeated. ”

Bai Qi stepped forward and bowed, and then helped Jin You up: "Having the help of the general is the blessing of my Great Qin." Today's comparison, I will compare it for the general. ”

Bai Qi turned around: "Order, transfer fifty guards." ”

Bai Qi and Bai Hui's personal soldiers are ready to have a vicious fight?

Countless Qin army soldiers had fanaticism on their faces.

"No, not today. They each went back to train and study tactics, and after five days, they were half outside the city. World War I gambled on meat for ten days. After Bai Hui finished speaking, he shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Dare to fight." ”

"Fight, fight!"

Bai Qi nodded: "Okay, five days later, half a city away." Ten days later, the rest of the generals drew lots to select a wild mountain forest, choose a tactic, and then count the battles. Bai Qi was worried about Bai Hui's inappropriate way of playing in the forest.

Not the means, in the midst of war is praise.

"Fight!"

The two brothers, Bai Qi and Bai Hui, walked up to the front and gave a high-five.

The Qin army was the strongest, and it was the Qin soldiers trained by Sima Cuo, and only 1,600 of the 200,000 Qin soldiers were selected.

It is recorded in Xunzi that the skill of Qi cannot meet the warriors of the Wei clan, and the warriors of the Wei clan cannot meet the sharp soldiers of the Qin clan.

Qin soldiers are selected for the first level, carrying a weight of eighty catties, traveling a hundred miles in one day, and then being able to immediately put into the fierce fighters to pass the level. Moreover, it is required that the foot combat can beat the Wei warriors, and the horse combat can beat the knights.

The goal of the two brothers, Bai Qi and Bai Hui, is very simple, to have a strong army that can beat the Qin soldiers.

And the number of people will be more than 10,000.

The lack of personal martial arts is compensated for by battle formations, ordnance, high mobility, and so on.

A kind of teamwork game on the battlefield, it is not by individual martial arts that can decide the victory or defeat on the battlefield.

Back in the city, Bai Qi and Bai Hui had just sat down and Bai Qihe arrived.

Bai Hui pushed open the window and looked at the moonlight outside, and said deliberately: "What are you doing here in the middle of the night?" ”

Bai Qihe didn't talk nonsense with Bai Hui, grabbed the clay bottle on the table, poured a bowl of water for himself, poured it down, and said, "Can you use a coal stove for the five cities in Hedong." ”

The word coal was used by Bai Hui on an occasional occasion, but it became the new name of graphite, black dan, etc.

The output of pottery coal furnaces in Dingyang County has reached a new height, which was specially supplied to Xianyang City at the request of the King of Qin. In order to reduce the demand for firewood in Xianyang, because the king of Qin found that it was very wasteful to split complete wood into firewood, and in terms of cost and convenience, coal was more practical than firewood.

Bai Hui turned to Bai Qi: "Brother, what do you think?" ”

"I can't say anything about it, I'm worried that coal will increase the ironmaking of Korean craftsmen several times."

Bai Qi's first concern is the military, and the iron weapons of the Han people are the first in the Warring States that surpasses the Chu people.

Bai Hui smiled: "Coal has not undergone special processing, and the iron smelted by adding some special ores will break when touched, I don't know much about this, but I know that coal cannot be directly used for iron smelting." ”

"Are you sure?"

"Pretty sure."

After the two brothers finished speaking, Xi Qihe said: "The secret of coal can't be kept for too long, unless it is not used by the people, in addition to the use of Dingyang County, many counties in Hexi have also begun to use it, and I have just received a report that our people have discovered two very large open-pit coal mines." ”

"Two?" Bai Hui held out two fingers.

Xi Qihe nodded: "One is less than a hundred miles west of Dingyang County, an unknown ravine, which is now called Heishigou, and has asked the Hexi County Guard to send soldiers and horses to settle in." In another place...... "Xi begged and stopped."

Bai Qi and Xi Qihe have known each other since childhood, and he immediately asked, "Is it in Hedong?" ”

"It's just half north of the city, less than ten miles, and the scale is amazing. The prospectors found that Fang Yuan could dig coal under the floating soil and rocks for ten miles, how about it? ”

Bai Qi and Bai Hui stood up.

Coal, Bai Qi does not understand the economy, but he also understands that coal is definitely a strategic resource of Daqin.

Bai Hui stood up for another reason, remembering that in later generations, Shaanxi and Jin were huge coal mining bases, and this secret seemed to be really unconcealable.

"How?" Bai Qi also asked.

"Back to Xianyang."

Bai Hui's tone was hesitant, although he didn't know where the specific mining area was, Bai Hui knew that most of Korea existed in countless coal mines.

Hearing Bai Hui say that he wanted to go back to Xianyang, Bai Qi just said one word: "Okay." ”

A few days later, Xianyang Palace.

King Qin had just received a letter from Bai Hui, because it was not an urgent military report, not only was the time on the road slow, so the internal historian just checked it according to the usual routine and put it in the regular book.

When King Qin read the letter, it was already three days after the letter was delivered to Xianyang, and after reading the contents of the letter, he went to the Empress Dowager Xuan to discuss.

Empress Dowager Xuan said: "It's a person with a heart, he chose an internal servant not for etiquette, but to let the king send someone to spy on him, maybe the word surveillance is not used correctly, it is more appropriate to use it to win the trust, this Bai Hui wants to get the king's trust." ”

"After being reminded by his mother, the son was suddenly opened."

King Qin's words are not compliments, as a king, he is still a little bit behind. When he fought for the throne, if it weren't for the decisive decision between Empress Dowager Xuan and Wei Ran, I am afraid that he would have died, and he would not have become the king of Qin.

Although the King of Qin is now twenty-six years old and can handle national affairs, his experience is indeed insufficient.

Empress Dowager Xuan said: "There are two kinds of people who want to win the trust of the king, one wants to do great things, and the other has plans. ”

Hearing the word conspiracy, King Qin thought of a person, Su Qin.

When Wei Ran returned to Xianyang, he told the King of Qin about Su Qin, and the King of Qin knew that Su Qin was a dead man who was trying to destroy the Kingdom of Qi by winning the trust of the King of Qi.

King Qin asked Empress Dowager Xuan: "Mother, what is this Bai Hui thinking?" ”

"Bai Hui is an old Qin person."

The three words of the old Qin people, like an iron talisman, the king of Qin can not trust the people of the world, and he will definitely not distrust the old Qin people. The old Qin people died on the battlefield for the ninety percent of the men of the Great Qin, and the old Qin people were even more proud of the Bai family.

The Old Qin people are a special group, they are the descendants of the Qin people of the era when the Zhou royal family raised horses.

The old Qin people were orthodox Chinese who moved westward at the end of the Shang Dynasty, and took Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang as their ancestors.

The Ying family is a descendant of the Yellow Emperor.

Empress Dowager Xuan's sentence that the old Qin people defined Bai Hui's sex also means that she believes in the Bai family and Bai Hui.

While the mother and son were talking, someone from the palace came in and reported: "The queen mother, the king." The marquis asked to see, and the marquis took the white left chief. ”

Empress Dowager Xuan instructed: "Bring it here." ”