After the founding of the Western Qin Dynasty, Zhao Ziliang did not focus on the military, foreign wars and political affairs, in fact, he had already determined the general direction in government affairs, and the specific details and implementation were naturally improved and implemented by the Government Affairs Yuan, and in the military, the military of the Western Qin Dynasty also changed with the changes in time and the situation.

At the beginning, the territory of Western Qin was only Beiting, Sogdia, and Tocharo, so the army of the Western Qin army was maintained at about 120,000, and later considered that it was necessary to maintain local stability and possibly deal with external threats, so the compulsory military system was formulated, and about 30,000 compulsory soldiers were added in the whole Western Qin, and with the maturity of the compulsory military system, the military strength once increased to about 100,000, because it was not a standing army, and it would be retired after three years, and the cost was not large, so this number was maintained for several years, even after Tianzhu was defeated, The number of conscripts has not increased again, because there are too many young people who have grown up in recent years, and all young people cannot be allowed to join the army, so they can only take the action of conscription and admit them only if they meet the requirements. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Under the rule of Zhao Ziliang, the Western Qin not only vigorously developed the military and improved the ruling level of officials, but also paid special attention to cultural education and academic research. The newly built Xiqin Library has been completed, this library covers an area of 2,000 acres, not only collects the works of various schools of thought in the Central Plains, but also collects a large number of books from India, Dashi, the Eastern Roman Empire and Italy for scholars to read and study, the books stored here cover many disciplines, such as astronomy, geography, arithmetic, religion, philosophy, military, politics, poetry and songs, agriculture and forestry, hydrology, navigation and so on. There are even a large number of books on physics and chemistry that are considered heretical doctrines by the Western Holy See.

The Western Qin royal family also provided research funds for scholars from all walks of life who were engaged in the study of various academic ideas, and if scholars wanted to engage in research in a certain academic field, they could provide detailed research ideas and ideas as well as previous works to apply for funding, and if they were recognized by the royal family, they could obtain funding.

The loose religious policy has made the religious atmosphere in various parts of the Western Qin very harmonious, and there is no terrible situation in which the Great Food Country and the Western countries are either the same believers or pagans, but the government does not ignore the faith, the government has a special agency to administer the various sects in the country, and at the same time, it also invites people of high moral standing of the sects to join in and participate in the management, which can allow the sects to supervise themselves.

Zhao Ziliang also attaches great importance to the spiritual entertainment activities of the people, before the founding of the Western Qin Dynasty, the government organized the Ju Ke team, which competed in the local area every year, selected the winning team, and then sent to Xinjing to compete, and later the Ju Ke team was renamed the football team, and the government had a special yamen to manage and organize various competitions, and formulated and improved the rules of the detailed game! After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the football teams in various places were privatized under the instructions of Zhao Ziliang, and the government sold the football teams to private businessmen, which were managed by the people themselves, and the officials were only responsible for organizing games and adjudicating various disputes.

After the formalization of the football team, various entertainment competitions have sprung up in the rain, such as calligraphy competitions, poetry competitions, essay competitions, singing competitions, competitions of various musical instruments such as the huqin, wrestling competitions, fighting ring competitions, sword fighting, archery, equestrian, riding archery, and so on.

Chen Qingying and Nie Sanniang are both loyal fans of the royal football team, and the biennial national football league has started again.

The arrival of the King, Queen and Princess made the audience excited, and the audience applauded, and the players who had just entered the stadium were all full of energy when they heard the news.

The Xinjing Football Stadium has a special audience seat for members of the royal family and ministers, Zhao Ziliang and others are sitting here, after the ball game starts, Chen Qingying and Nie Sanniang both watched it with relish, and from time to time they got angry, and even scolded so-and-so that he shouldn't kick like this.

Zhao Ziliang seemed a little absent-minded, he pretended to eat the situation in the country, and at the same time, he couldn't rest assured about the situation of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, this afternoon he also had the heads of the various sects who came from all over the Western Qin to discuss the matter of regularizing the management of the various sects.

Finally finished watching this ball game, Zhao Ziliang returned to the palace and saw Zheng San waiting outside Xuanwu Fort, Zheng San saw Zhao Ziliang coming back, and hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "See the king!" ”

Zhao Ziliang asked, "Why are you here?" ”

Zheng San said: "The minister has an urgent matter to report to the king, but he was told that the king is not in the palace, so the minister has to wait here!" ”

Zhao Ziliang immediately instructed the eunuch of the royal house: "Give Lord Zheng a waist card, no matter whether the king is in the palace or not in the future, he can enter the palace and wait!" ”

"Yes, King!"

Zheng San then followed Zhao Ziliang and the others into the palace, and after the women entered the inner palace, the two came to the side hall of the Qinzheng Hall and sat down, Zhao Ziliang asked, "Why are you so anxious?" ”

Zheng San put the brocade box he brought on the table and opened it, took out two pieces of metal from it and asked, "King, look at the difference between these two pieces of steel?" ”

Zhao Ziliang picked up two pieces of steel in confusion and checked them on both hands: "The weight is about the same, but the piece on the right hand seems to be smoother!" ”

Zheng San nodded and said, "Yes, this piece of smooth steel has a special function, it will not rust!" Even if you soak it in acidic things, it won't melt easily, but this ordinary piece of steel on your left hand will rust after just a few days, and it can't resist acidic corrosion! ”

"What? This ・・・・・・ this is stainless steel? Zhao Ziliang's hand shook, almost letting the steel fall off, he stood up involuntarily in surprise, and hurriedly asked, "Where did it come from?" ”

Zheng San said: "The Shattered Leaf City Weapon Forging Factory accidentally poured a basket of ore of different colors into it when it was smelting a pot of molten iron, and the steel block that was smelted was like this!" ”

Zhao Ziliang immediately shouted outside: "Come on, prepare immediately, this king is going to Broken Leaf City to inspect!" ”

"Yes!"

On March 18, Zhao Ziliang and Zheng San hurried to Broken Leaf City with a small number of guards, and in the east of Broken Leaf City, there was a steel smelter that had been established for ten years on the west side of Daqing Pond, which was relocated from Xilin Shou when Zhao Ziliang took over the protection of Beiting.

The Broken Leaf City Iron and Steel Smelter is heavily guarded, the level of secrecy is extremely high, it has a special army of soldiers and horses responsible for security guards, the craftsmen and craftsmen who are engaged in labor and research in the steel smelter must be searched every day, they are not allowed to bring anything in, nor are they allowed to bring anything out, their families live in the nearby family area, and the family area is also subject to strict access control system management. Comparatively speaking, the salaries and packages of craftsmen and craftsmen who work here are very high, which is also a kind of compensation.

Upon receiving the news that the king was about to make an inspection of the iron and steel smelter, the chief officer of the iron works and the captain in charge of the security guard quickly rushed to the gate with some craftsmen and soldiers and lined up on both sides of the gate to greet them.

The iron and steel smelter belongs to the military department, so Zhao Ziliang came here on horseback with his whole body clothed, and the officials, craftsmen and soldiers saw Zhao Ziliang running over on horseback surrounded by a large group of Dragon Guard soldiers, and they all bowed down one after another: "Meet the king, welcome the king to visit the steel plant!" ”

"Let's all be flat!" Zhao Ziliang raised his hand, and after speaking, he jumped off the horse, and the guards of the Dragon Guard Army led the war horse away.

"King Xie!" Officials, craftsmen, and soldiers rose to their feet.

At this time, the gate of the iron factory was wide open, Zhao Ziliang was welcomed in by officials and craftsmen, the soldiers of the Dragon Guard followed behind to guard, and the soldiers stationed in the steel plant were on guard on the periphery.

Under the guidance of the officials and craftsmen of the iron and steel plant, Zhao Ziliang, Zheng San and others visited the various production workshops and various production processes and links of the iron and steel plant, and visited the craftsmen who were working.

When visiting the No. 1 steelmaking workshop, Zhao Ziliang asked: "I heard that this king has inadvertently refined a non-rusty and corrosion-resistant steel block?" ”

The steel mill official replied, "Yes, king! ”

"Let's talk about how to make this rust-free, corrosion-resistant steel!"

"Yes!" The official of the steel mill agreed, introducing: "King, on the sixth day of the first month of last month, a batch of iron ore was transported from the Kimak Duhufu, these iron ores are mixed with some bright red ore, this bright red ore is similar to the color of the iron ore we know but slightly different, at that time we thought it was the same kind of iron ore, we didn't care, so it was used for smelting, but after smelting a furnace of molten iron cooled, we found that there was lead in the iron, lead is more common, this as long as a little experience of the craftsman knows, So we know that this ore not only contains iron, but also contains lead, we can only use acid to melt the iron, the lead in the iron precipitation, but the ablation speed of the iron has become extremely slow, which we have never seen before, but when we filter out the lead, we found that the molten iron actually has a color, which surprised us, and when the molten iron cools down into iron, and brighter than a handful of iron, we decarburize it and carry out various performance tests, and find its differences, which makes us believe, There's a metal in that different color ore that we don't know, or we've never seen before, and that's how it happened! ”

Zhao Ziliang knew that this metal was named chromium in later generations, and the steel with a certain proportion of chromium had the physical properties of not rusting and corrosion resistance, and he said to the officials and craftsmen: "In addition to gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead and this unknown metal in the world, there must be other metals, but we have not yet discovered their existence, and you must pay more attention when you encounter metal ores!" In addition, let's see if we can find a way to extract this unknown metal separately, since the metal containing it has the properties of stainless steel and corrosion resistance, it means that it has a wide range of functions! ”

The officials and craftsmen promised: "Yes, my lord!" I'll find a way to distill it."