Chapter 5: The Crown Vault

After thinking for a while, Zhou Bian nodded, "Doctor Man's plan is very good, and he can solve the current situation, but we don't know enough about Wei Hou, and it is difficult to implement, your suggestion has been taken to heart, and I will send you an envoy at an appropriate time." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info but there is also a key point you said is to get in touch with the Duke of the Western Zhou Dynasty again, according to the king or you go, if there is nothing else, set off tomorrow, Aiqing can have the confidence to build a good relationship with Luoyang for the king? ”

Hearing Zhou Bian's praise, Wang Sunman was very excited, but the calm look on his face was undiminished, which made Zhou Bian, who was staring at Wang Sunman, also have a good feeling in his heart. I saw Wang Sunman salute and thank him first, and then continued, "Please rest assured, the king will set off tomorrow and will complete the task for my king." ”

Seeing that it was finally his turn, the supervisor was not humble, so he stood up and said, "The king, the slave family only knows how to manage the accounts for the royal family, and does not know these great truths, I hope the king will forgive me." But there is something to report, that the Western Zhou and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in my Chengzhou City diplomatic war, there are soldiers who robbed my Chengzhou farmers of the grain, now most of the farmers outside the city of Chengzhou have been unable to open the pot, plus a few days ago there was a heavy snowfall, and there are more people who froze to death, I hope the king will order relief. "As a result of Zhou Bian's proposal last time, the entire royal family is now aware of the relief of the victims.

"Whether it is the so-called Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou, or Luoyang Gongyi, and I are a family of Cheng Zhou, they are all my people of the Great Zhou, and they actually come to grab food?" The anger came from the Taishi.

"Master Taishi, not all of them are two-week soldiers, most of them are Han soldiers."

Suddenly, some people scolded, it seems that this South Korea is really bullying my royal family too much. Zhou Bian was also angry, so he casually ordered, "Of course, if you want relief, let my royal family come out." ”

"Your Majesty, the Korean soldiers crossed the border two months ago, which caused my royal family's harvest this year to be worse than in previous years, and now it is not enough to go to the relief of the victims. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't mention it here. As the chief manager, Jian Jia knew these accounts very well in his heart, and after speaking, he looked at the Taishi.

Could it be that as soon as I became the king, I encountered a test, thinking that Zhou Bian also looked at the Taishi, the Taishi is the head of the ministers, and there must be a way. Sure enough, after pondering for a while, the Taishi nodded and said, "King, the old man has a way, but he has to tell the king in private." ”

Zhou Bian nodded in agreement, and then turned to the crowd to ask if there was anything to report or propose, but no one answered, so he opened his mouth and said something to praise everyone, and arranged the next work, that is, the Taishi was in charge of relieving the victims, and the supervisor cooperated with him, Shan Wen and Liu Zixi listed the good and bad changes and details for everyone's reference, and the young master and Sima Tu strengthened military training, and Wang Sunman first prepared to send an envoy to the Western Zhou Dynasty, because the envoy to Wei still needs to wait for the opportunity, so it is particularly important to improve the relationship with the Duke of the Western Zhou Dynasty first. This is also the consensus reached by everyone, and even the young master has no objection to this. Everyone nodded their heads to accept the order, and unconsciously, Zhou Bian also established his own prestige, in fact, it was this person who saw the hope of having his own performance stage, although I don't know if those people would really do it, but at least on the surface, it was still acceptable.

At the same time, Zhou Bian also announced that such a small pilgrimage meeting would be held every five days in the future. This is also Zhou Bian's thoughtful thinking, if it is opened too often, there really is not so much to say, if it is not opened for a long time, I am afraid that everyone will be lazy again. The Taishi took the lead in agreeing, and everyone also left after expressing their attitudes, so Zhou Bian's first cabinet meeting ended successfully, and the meeting achieved its due effect, one is to make Zhou Bian familiar with his subordinates, and the other is to show a positive monarch for everyone, Zhou Bian's modest and studious character and the habit of listening to the voices of his subordinates have won unanimous praise from the ministers, and even soon spread the good reputation of King Zhou who is good at treating people, which is unexpected by Zhou Bian, and the third is to take a solid first step on the road to the revitalization of the Great Zhou. Although I don't know how effective this meeting was, it was a good opening, and since then, such a small scale of important ministers has become a habit, but the more the participants change in the future.

The Taishi stayed, and walked to the depths of the palace with Zhou Bian with a puzzled face, and the more he went inside, the more guards he guarded, and soon arrived at the gate of a courtyard, and the guards of the guards knew at a glance that they were different from other places, not only fully equipped, holding a spear and carrying a long sword at his waist, wearing a strong armor that was rare even in the royal guards, and his temperament was even more sturdy and capable.

In confusion, the Taishi whispered a few words to the head of the guard, and the guards knelt down on one knee one after another, "See the king!" In fact, there were no TV newspapers at that time, and not everyone could know the new king immediately, so Zhou Bian didn't think it was strange, so he raised his hands and helped him up.

After seeing it, the Taishi explained on the side, "The king doesn't know, is it only Wei Wushu is the strongest soldier in the world, in fact, I have a tiger Ben when I was in King Wen of the Great Zhou, and when King Wu was defeated, he selected three thousand tiger ben from the 100,000 army, and each one was a hundred. Since then, the tiger Ben military system of my Great Zhou has been preserved, its training methods have been passed down from generation to generation, and can be used in times of crisis, but unfortunately there are not many of them, and the ancestors of my past dynasties are not good at martial arts, so they gradually support the guard of honor for the king, do not practice martial arts, and are forgotten by the world. As for Wei Wushu, in order to thank the Jin Marquis Ping for the rebellion, King Xiang of Zhou Xiang gave the Jin Marquis 300 soldiers of the Tiger Ben, and since then the strength of the Jin State has something to do with it, and the Wei Wushu of the Wei State must have also referred to the training method of the Tiger Ben. On the other hand, my royal family, since the rebellion of the prince's dynasty, has only resumed tiger training, and now there are only fifty people, and the first king ordered to guard the treasures of my royal family. After the first king fell ill, he was placed under the control of the queen mother. After a pause, he added, "Then Liu Yun is one of the tigers." ”

Zhou Bian couldn't help but suddenly realize that when he came today, he passed by the place where the flagpole was pulled out last time. However, looking at the meaning of the Taishi, he couldn't even control the Tiger Army, and he couldn't help but look up to this small army a lot, and couldn't help but look at it a few more times before walking into the courtyard. However, Zhou Bian was not very greedy for these soldiers, after all, he had many training methods in his mind.

After entering the courtyard, the Taishi continued, "Does the king know the situation of my Zhou room?" A hundred years ago, when King Zhou Jing was king, the royal family's products could no longer meet their daily needs, so they had to ask the princes for utensils. By the time King Jing's son Jing was king, he had no money to build the palace where the king now lives, so he had to ask the Marquis of Jin for it. The poverty of my royal family can be seen as well. ”

Zhou Bian couldn't help but be awe-struck when he heard this, and when he was silent, the Taishi had ordered his entourage to open the first door in the courtyard. This room is quite large, after entering, Zhou Bian couldn't help but be stunned, only to see that there were ten rows of tall shelves in the house, each shelf was divided into three layers, and each layer was filled with dense copper shields, so there were nearly a thousand. It's just that the house is covered with dust and cobwebs, and I think no one has cleaned it for a long time.

"King, some of these shields were given by the Marquis of Jin, some were moved from Luoyang, and most of them can still be used, but they are just stored first. The king, please move on to the next room. ”

In the second room, however, there were a dense number of weapons, including spears, halberds, swords, etc., either on shelves or leaning against them, except that the wooden handles of some long weapons had rotted, or there was only a bronze spear head. At a cursory glance, there are two or three thousand in total. Zhou Bian picked up a long sword casually, only to feel that his hand was quite heavy, the sword body was already green patina, and the blade of the sword was no longer sharp.

With doubts, Zhou Bian walked into the third room, but there were not many weapons in this room, only dozens of swords, but the shock to Zhou Bian was far greater than the first two rooms. It turned out that there were pieces of dark black metal on the wooden shelves of this room, and Zhou Bian approached and touched them carefully, and the place where he started was cold, and it was clearly a piece of iron ingot. The end of the Warring States period was the period when iron replaced bronze, but I didn't think that the royal family actually had inventory.

The Taishi looked at Zhou Bian's actions like this, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Does the king also know about this iron weapon?" In fact, your royal brother has always had great ambitions, and he knows the sharpness of iron weapons, so he saved his daily expenses, plus other income from the royal family, and sold some treasures handed down by the royal family, and bought a little from the merchants of various countries, here and there, so much. It is also because iron ingots are cheaper than iron swords, so they buy iron ingots exclusively. ”

Zhou Bian's heart was suddenly touched, who said that the Zhou room didn't want to revitalize, they had also worked hard.

"It's a pity that the first king has gone before he is ready to use this." The Taishi sighed even more as he spoke. Zhou Bian thought, it's just that it's all cheap for me. "My lord, the first king once asked a forger to see that these iron ingots can cast two thousand iron swords, but because I can't find a good swordsmith, I have always placed them here." Taishi said again.

Zhou Bian thought that this was not a problem, in modern society, high school students all know the basic principles of iron smelting, not to mention that they have already practiced iron ingots, only purification is left, and when someone has money, they will practice it.

The last room is much smaller, but it is filled with some jade, bronze utensils and the like, pick up a small tripod casually, Zhou Bian only feels that this tripod is very simple, but I am afraid that it has a history of hundreds of years. "King, this tripod was respected by Luhou when King Jing, and now it can be exchanged for a few loads of grain when it is sold. Alas, in the past, if there were any difficulties in my Zhou family, Luoyang Zhou Gong would probably help, Luoyang Zhou Gong supported the royal family a lot, but now we can only rely on ourselves first, fortunately, sell some of the collections here, and still support the past. The voice of the Taishi came. Zhou Bian turned the ding over and looked at it, and sure enough, there was the word Lu written on it, and he sighed lightly and put it down. "Taishi, if my royal family only relies on selling these things, it is not a long-term solution."

"Don't worry, my royal family has another way to make a living, but it's a little shameful to say it." Taishi coughed lightly, and continued, "My royal family has some business in Luoyang City, and I can also subsidize one or two for the royal family, and Jian Jia is in charge of it. The Taishi looked ashamed and seemed to be deeply ashamed. Zhou Bian didn't care, officials and businessmen, there are more modern societies, even if the royal family doesn't have it now, I have to do it in the future, otherwise the revitalization of the Great Zhou is just an empty slogan, but the business matter has not yet been raised, so I haven't mentioned it, now it's okay, the royal family already has, and I just need to improve it on the original basis. After a moment of emotion, the two left the place.