Section 7: Wisdom Promotes Marriage

After coming to the capital of Chongqing, the prince invited everyone to a banquet that night, and everyone ate very happily at the banquet, and only went to rest under the leadership of the prince until late.

The next morning, the prince came to everyone's quarters, greeted them warmly, and said, "Good morning, everyone, today I have sent a gift to all the knights, please come and appreciate them together." ”

After speaking, Prince Bai Yu waved his hand to the guards behind him, and the guards came over with a batch of long swords, and each gave one to each.

Cook took the long sword, pulled it out, looked left and right, and then kept admiring and said, "This long sword is really exquisitely made, very beautiful and strong. ”

Prince Bai Yu said with a smile: "These long swords are not only beautiful on the outside, but also hard and sharp. ”

After saying that, Prince Woo asked Cook for his sword, and then pulled out his long sword and asked Cook to test it with the long sword he had gifted.

Cook was very curious, and swung his sword at the ordinary long sword in the prince's hand. After the blades of the two swords collided violently, I saw a deep cut in the body of the Nate long sword, but the long sword given was still intact and as sharp as ever.

Seeing this, Miller exclaimed: "I have long heard that the long sword of Yu Kingdom is famous all over the world, and it is indeed extraordinary to see it today, I don't know what kind of material this long sword is made of?" ”

Prince Bai Yu happily replied, "It's made of iron tools sold from your Knight, but the craftsmanship of forging the sword is different." ”

Miller was amazed after hearing this, and he realized that the real power of Yu was the exquisite sword-casting process.

Then Cook asked the prince curiously, "Your Royal Highness, can you let me try again with your sword and our Lord Robit's sword?" ”

Prince Bai Yu looked full of confidence, and replied with a mouthful, "But it doesn't hurt to try. ”

Cook smiled and swung his sword at Robit, who hesitated for a moment, but pulled out the knight's sword at his waist and let Cook slash it.

With a clang, the long sword given by the prince was still cut off by Robit's knight's sword, but Robit's knight's sword was still intact, which surprised everyone.

It's better than not knowing, and after comparing it, everyone realized that the sharpness of the knight's sword is far beyond everyone's imagination, and compared with the knight's sword, even the world-famous Yu country long sword is also vulnerable.

The most surprising was naturally Prince Bai Yu, who looked at Robit's knight's sword in surprise, and asked Robit in surprise: "Lord Robitt, the craftsmanship of your long sword looks exactly the same as our Yu country sword, could it be that this is the legendary Knight Sword of Knight?" ”

Robit replied, "Yes, this is my father's sword of Connor, and I am sure you have heard of it, Your Highness the Prince." ”

Prince Bai Yu was shocked when he heard this, and respectfully bowed to Robit, and he pleaded with Robitt and said, "Lord Robit, I want to borrow your sword to hold a sacrificial ceremony, so that my father and the ministers can come and worship together." ”

Robit was puzzled and asked, "But this is only my father's sword, why do you worship this sword?" ”

The prince said excitedly: "Sword casting is the national art of our Yu country, and this is the glory left to us by our ancestors. This Connor's sword is the second knight's sword our ancestors made for Knight, and to us he is like a sacred relic to our Yu people. You must have all heard of the legend of the knight's sword forged sword, right? ”

Miller nodded again and again and said, "That's right." Legend has it that the black ore used to forge the knight's sword came from Kaede. This black ore is so rare that it takes more than a hundred years to collect it to craft a knight's sword. Every time a knight's sword was crafted, the kingdom would send people to Yu to invite the best swordsmiths to the royal capital to forge the sword. Each time the sword was cast, it took 7749 days of repeated tempering to finally forge an extremely sharp knight's sword. ”

"That's right!" Prince Qiyu nodded and said, "Now that the knight's sword has come to our Yu country, it is equivalent to the merit of the ancestors visiting the hometown, so I must hold a ceremony to welcome and worship well." ”

Robit laughed happily, and replied, "I see, I have to pay a good respect." ”

Robit handed the knight's sword to the prince, and the group followed the prince to the temple in the capital.

Under the arrangement of the prince, the king and all the ministers of civil and military affairs gathered in the temple, and in the noise of drummers and master of ceremonies, everyone knelt three times and bowed to this precious sword, and held a vigorous worship ceremony.

In gratitude to Robit, the king ordered another feast to be held, once again entertaining Knight's guests.

During the banquet, everyone chatted and talked about the prince's victory in the competition of the princess of Qin, and everyone congratulated His Royal Highness the prince.

However, His Royal Highness the Prince looked a little sad, and he sighed and said, "Although I won the tournament, Princess Shuying still asked me to fulfill her three wishes before she would marry me. Princess Shuying's beauty and wisdom go hand in hand, and her three exam questions really stumped me. My Bai Yu's ability is limited, and I may have to live up to the love of His Majesty and the ministers. ”

The king of Yu was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "No, what kind of problem did Princess Shuying give you that would make you so disheartened?" ”

After listening to this, Prince Bai Yu reached out and took out the document from his arms, and read it aloud according to what was written on it.

"I am the princess of Qin, my marriage determines the fate of our people of Qin, if the prince of Yu can fulfill my three wishes, I will immediately agree to this marriage.

I hope that when I get married, I can be accompanied by the knights of the Qin State and come from the river in a big way, so I asked the Yu State to build a bridge over the river within three days, so that the wedding honor guard can come directly from the capital of Qin to the capital of Chongqing to hold the wedding.

Second, I wanted a romantic wedding, and I wanted all the palace compounds to be as bright as daytime on the wedding night, even the sky.

Third, after I marry the prince of Yu, the throne of Qin and Yu will be inherited by the prince of Yu, and the two countries will become a kingdom in the future, and I hope that the new kingdom will be named Qin-Yu, not Yu or Yu-Qin. ”

Yu Guo was furious after hearing this, he roared on the spot and said: "Ridiculous, how can it be possible to build a bridge over the river in three days, this is obviously deliberately difficult, it is clear that he doesn't want to marry, it is simply too deceitful." ”

The prince also echoed bitterly: "Yes, this third wish is not a difficult thing, it is just a name, and it doesn't matter which country is put in front." But building a bridge in three days, and making the night sky look like daytime, is like myths and legends, and it is impossible to do it at all. ”

After hearing this, the ministers began to discuss privately how to achieve these two demands.

A Wenchen muttered loudly: "The river in this capital is relatively slow, and the river is the widest, and if you want to build a bridge on this 800-meter river, it will take several years to say the least." And then there is the palace compound, night is night, how can it become daylight? ”

After hearing this, another minister reprimanded: "Nonsense, Your Majesty and the prince are asking us to think of countermeasures, we all know what you said, so you can talk about a way." ”

The minister who spoke earlier shook his head again and again and replied: "There is no solution, there is no solution, this is something that cannot be done." ”

Seeing that the ministers did not bow their heads and sigh, the king then sighed and said: "Our Qin and Chongqing have been dependent on each other for hundreds of years, and the people of the two countries have always hoped that one day they can unify into a kingdom, so that we will no longer have to divide each other. The ancestors made countless efforts because of this, but each time they ended in failure. Seeing that this is the best time for the reunification of our two countries, but the princess of Qin State has such a tricky problem, is this the will of heaven, and it always can't let us get our wish! ”

Suddenly Miller stood up, he bowed to the king, and then said slowly: "Your Majesty, we are willing to give advice to the prince, please give us some time to prepare, I believe that it will not be long before we can fulfill the first two dreams of Princess Shuying." ”

When the king heard this, he stood up excitedly, and replied cheerfully, "Is it so?" That's great. Since Mistress Miller is so confident, it is up to you and the knights of Knight to do everything. ”

After speaking, the king ordered to the ministers: "Lord Miller solves problems for our Chongqing country, if Lord Miller has any instructions, my Chongqing country must go all out and do everything possible to meet Lord Miller's arrangement." ”

After hearing this, the ministers got up one after another, and replied with a salute, "Your Majesty." ”

The feast ended immediately, and several of the kingdom's ministers and knights followed the prince to the council hall.

Miller looked around, looked carefully at everyone's faces, and commanded loudly, "I'll make arrangements, first of all, let's build the bridge." We will definitely not be able to build the bridge the normal way, so we have to think of something else. The ministers of Chongqing were asked to immediately arrange manpower to collect all the fishing boats along the river, and arrange for people to prepare wooden planks, and the length of all planks should be consistent. My solution was to use fishing boats in a line to make the foundation of the bridge temporarily. The boat is then secured with ropes by piling at the bottom of the river, and the fishing boat is covered with wood to serve as a bridge deck. Then prepare two long thick ropes to fasten the ends to the banks of the river and act as guardrails on both sides of the bridge. In this way, the bridge can be built quickly, not only can people and cars walk on it, but also relatively safe. ”

Everyone listened to it with a big brain, clapped their hands again and again, and praised Miller one after another.

Prince Bai Yu was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked: "Lord Miller is really a clever plan, and the matter of the bridge seems to be no longer a problem. And what about the second problem, does Mistress Miller have a solution? ”

Miller thought for a moment, then frowned and asked the prince, "Your Royal Highness, have you ever played the game of sky lanterns?" ”

"Sky lanterns?" The prince obviously didn't know what it was, he shook his head and asked, "I haven't heard of it, what is it?" ”

Miller explained: "Oh, the so-called sky lantern is a boxy shade made of paper, leaving an opening at the bottom, and hanging an oil lamp from the opening so that it can fly into the air on its own. ”

One of the ministers frowned and asked, "Huh?" This, can this fly, Lord Miller? Even if he could fly, could he turn night into day? ”

Miller smiled and replied, "Well, if you want to really turn night into day, it must be impossible." We are not gods, how can we control day and night. But if enough sky lanterns are released in the palace compound, then they are led by ropes. You try to think about it, if there are countless oil lamps overhead, does it feel like daytime? ”

The minister nodded again and again, and a pleasant smile appeared on his face.

Seeing that everyone was satisfied with the method Miller said, Prince Bai Yu immediately ordered to start arranging the implementation.

Then the entire Yu Kingdom began to get busy, and in order to complete the two major dreams of the princess of the Qin State, the Yu State did not hesitate to use the treasury reserves.

Seeing that the whole country went to such great lengths for a marriage, Robit said with emotion: "Hey, I always thought that only our nobles of Knight would be so crazy, but I didn't expect that they would be so corrupt here in their Qinyu Kingdom. ”

Miller retorted: "It cannot be said that for the sake of the reunification of the two countries, they did not know how many belligerents had before, how many people had died, and how much money had been wasted. If you only need to fulfill the princess's two dreams to end the war between the two countries, and let the land of Qinyu exchange for permanent peace, what is the price. ”

Robit nodded, and it made sense to hear Miller say that.

Prince Bai Yu has a high prestige in Chongqing, and he is very efficient in doing things for the prince and the people of Chongqing. Two days later, a pontoon bridge made of fishing boats was quickly built, and sky lanterns floated over the Yuguo Imperial Palace. Such a miraculous strange thing immediately spread throughout the land of Qin and Chongqing, and the people around the two countries rushed to see the excitement, and Princess Shuying was very satisfied with Miller's idea.

On the third day, Princess Shuying, accompanied by a hundred guards, came to the capital of Chongqing from the pontoon bridge and held a big wedding with Prince Baiyu very faithfully.

Under the witness of many knights, the kings of Qin and Chongqing sat together, signed an alliance to unite the two countries into one kingdom, named the new kingdom Qinyu, and announced that Prince Bai Yu became the first king of Qinyu.

After the birth of the new Qin-Chongqing Kingdom, in order to thank these knights for their help, the new King Baiyu overhauled their houses on the west side of the capital, providing them with permanent shelter and food.

After some hard work, although Mompot failed to marry Princess Shuying, the group finally found a place to live and no longer endured the pain of displacement.