After the cabinet meeting was dispersed, it happened to be noon, after sending off the ministers, Zhou Bian had lunch alone, and was about to go to the city wall to see how the layout was, but was stopped by his subordinates, for no other reason, it was the hot weather in June, at noon, why did he have to go to bask in the sun?

After receiving a report from the Gongyi spies and learning that the Han army had suffered heavy losses, that the 100,000 troops were camping in Gongyi to rest, and that there was no momentum to come west, Zhou Bian took a nap with peace of mind. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

This sleep is quite peaceful, but it was woken up by the knowing, thousands of years, still can't change the cry of the knowing, for a moment of trance seems to be back to the modern afternoon of the later life, the breeze blows, like the mother's hand-cranked fan in childhood. In a daze, Zhou Bian opened his eyes suddenly, but found that there was a slight sweat on the delicate face on the side, but it was Concubine Liu lying next to her, with a thin fan in her hand.

It turned out that it was still in Luoyang, Eastern Zhou, and the Korean army was pressing, so Zhou Bian sat up violently.

"How long has this king slept?"

"Back to the king, two quarters of an hour." Concubine Liu seemed to be taken aback.

"Oh, that's half an hour, but it's not long." Zhou Bian pushed away the thin quilt on his body and jumped down, "Hurry up and serve this king, get dressed, this king is going to the city wall." ”

Unexpectedly, Concubine Liu knelt down, "The king only came back yesterday evening, and he was busy all morning today, and it was hot at noon, do you have to go out to work?" Aren't there ministers? ”

"The stakes are very high, this king is really not at ease, after a few days, I really don't know how the defense of Luoyang City is." Zhou Bian still wanted to go out.

I didn't think that my legs were hugged by Concubine Liu, "King, isn't this Luoyang City only the king's, is it true that everything is inseparable from the king?" ”

Looking up at the scorching sun outside, looking down at the weak woman in front of him with a face that wanted to cry, Zhou Bian sighed, took two steps back and leaned on the low couch.

Seeing that the king no longer insisted, Concubine Liu blushed slightly, "When noon has passed, it's not too late for the king to inspect again." It's really hotter today than the other day. ”

Facing Concubine Liu's explanation, Zhou Bian smiled slightly, "When the sun is a little smaller, this king will go again." Go and fetch a bowl of ice water for the king, and then call Fan Yu and them to talk to the king. ”

"Yes." Concubine Liu smiled lightly and left.

There was an ice cellar dug in this Luoyang Palace, which surprised Zhou Bian for a while, but thinking about it, this ice cellar is not a high-tech job, and Zhou Bian suddenly realized it.

After Concubine Liu turned around and went out, Fan Yuziyuan, Cai Wu and the other three flashed in.

"King, do you want to go out of the palace to inspect the city defense?"

Looking at the three people with red faces and faint drops of sweat, Zhou Bian smiled, "I just promised your princess, it's too hot this day, so let's go out of the palace to inspect later." Anyway, the Han army also has to rest in Gongyi, and besides, on such a hot day, I don't believe it, aren't the Han soldiers afraid of the heat? ”

"The king is right, today is hotter than yesterday, but I am afraid that the city wall has rested, and the heat is really unbearable. To say that this Han army is really good at picking days, on such a hot day, he actually works hard to move the people. Fan Yu nodded.

"Then Han Hou wants to suppress my royal family as soon as possible, otherwise it will be difficult to explain to the world if he offended my Wang Ji in Gongyi before, so Han Hou can't wait to control my royal family tomorrow and tell the world in the name of my royal family. I'm afraid that although this day is hot, within a few days, the Korean army will still appear under my Luoyang city. ”

"That's true, it's a fierce battle under my Luoyang City in the future." Fan Yu and the others all sighed.

"Don't talk about this, you can't run away after all. In the morning, I heard Dr. Bai say that Han Hou wants to fight Handan, and said that Linzi is thousands of miles away, do you know that this Handan and Linzi, which one is closer to Anyi? Zhou Bian asked.

Handan is the capital of Zhao State, Linzi is the capital of Qi State, and Anyi is the capital of Wei State, although later generations also learned geography, but after all, this is ancient times, so in addition to the name of the city that has not changed for thousands of years in Handan, Zhou Bian also can't figure out where the other two cities are, so he asked.

I don't want the three of them to shake their heads, but they don't know, "King, I waited to urinate in the land of Wangji, and I never left, so I don't know." The people of the court, such as the young master, the white doctor, the full doctor, etc., must know it. ”

"Don't bother them, get the map." Zhou Bian beckoned.

Immediately, the white eunuch who was waiting in the outhouse presented a handful of sheepskins, which Zhou Bian ordered Jiang Ping to draw in person or by others, according to Zhou Bian's requirements, mixed with some techniques and techniques from later generations, it should still be more reliable than other maps of this era.

I didn't want to take the map up Zhou Bian only remembered a problem, this map only has a circle of cities in Luoyang, and the farthest is as far as Anyi and Xinzheng and other places, so Zhou Bian patted his head, and the royal family's spies only went to these places at the farthest, so the rest were not drawn, and these times he has been busy arranging city defenses, and there are so many cities near Wangji, so Zhou Bian has not brought this map with him, so he didn't think about it until he took it out.

The white eunuch was a flexible person, and when he saw the king, he smiled regretfully, and after asking clearly, he spoke, "King, there is also a picture album drawn in the palace of Luoyang, which is stored in the imperial historian, and the king can come and take a look." ”

Zhou Bian was immediately overjoyed when he heard this, "Then you can go and help this king come, hurry up." ”

After Bai Jian left, Zhou Bian turned his head to Fan Yu and said, "Remember for this king, after the Korean army retreats this time, I will spend my strength to redraw the map of all the countries according to my requirements." ”

After a while, I saw Concubine Liu use Xiaoding to get ice water, and repeatedly ordered Fan Yu and the other three to still refuse to drink together, so Zhou Bian had to drink a small bowl by himself. Several people talked for a long time, and saw that the white eunuch had not come back, and then saw that the sun was getting west, so Zhou Bian stood up, "After saying this conversation, the sun is also a little smaller, go, go out of the palace with this king to inspect." ”

After saying that, a few people walked outside, and just happened to meet Zhou Bian after ordering Fan Yu to take him in the car, the sun was still very strong when he went out, and the sun made people unable to raise their heads, but fortunately, there was a big car with a shed, plus a chill of ice water, and it was not so hot along the way. Then summoned the Imperial Forest Army, and the group went out of the palace to inspect.

The first stop is naturally the east city wall, go out of the palace and go directly to the east, although there are some crowded people on the road, but hundreds of royal forest troops open the way, and everyone still quickly arrives at the Dingding Gate.

The Han army came from the east, the east gate was naturally the top priority, and the young master was sitting here, and after hearing that the king was coming, the young master immediately went down to the city to welcome the king.

As soon as I climbed the tower, I saw that the two walls were full of people, although the sun was still roasting the earth, and the sweat wet the bluestone floor that had just been laid, but the people and soldiers who came and went still refused to stop. Zhou Bian took a closer look, the city wall had been built on the outer side according to the previous plan, and a dozen or so steps inside was a pot of oil on the shelf, and there were two spears and halberds more than two people leaning on the weapon rack, buckets of arrows were neatly arranged, and a row of wooden shields were leaning on the arrow barrels, everything was so orderly.

However, what attracted Zhou Bian's attention the most was the ten tall catapults on the two city walls, which were Zhou Bian's killer weapon, in this era, I am afraid that this is the most powerful and heaviest weapon. Zhou Bian walked to the nearest catapult, reached out and touched the thick whole log, turned around and asked, "This batch of instruments was sealed directly after it was done, and it has not been tried, have you tried this catapult after it was installed?" ”

The young master arched his hand and said, "Back to the king, naturally he has been colonized, and he can throw one and a half miles and a half at the farthest, surpassing the Chu crossbow that shoots the farthest." ”

"Well, that's good. This time we withdrew from the BMW factory from Cheng Zhou, and this king has ordered the craftsmen to step up their work, and this kind of equipment is easy to use, but the more the merrier. Zhou Bian nodded.

"Young Master, what are the people busy with on the city wall now? Is it a shed? ”

"Exactly, my lord, this shed is set up on the inner side of the wall, so that the soldiers can hide in it from the arrows that come up from under the city."

"Yes, but fire prevention measures must be taken, but don't let the South Korean army shoot rockets and burn them."

Saying that, Zhou Bian walked to the female wall on the outside of the city wall, leaned on the battlements and looked down, saying that the city wall was two zhang high, Zhou Bian looked at it, and sure enough, he felt that it was not bad from the two-story building in later generations, that is, the feeling of standing on the third floor and looking down, there was still a great defensive advantage.

After receiving the greetings from the soldiers on the city wall, and having an intimate conversation with some of the representatives, Zhou Bian walked down the city wall and rushed to the second stop of the inspection, the Xicheng Barracks.

Although there were soldiers on the city walls, the large army was still on standby and training in the barracks. Sure enough, before he got closer, he heard the slogan of the sky, Zhou Bian's face was happy, his morale was high, and he was worthy of a battle.

After training in the barracks and boosting morale, Zhou Bian rushed to the third station non-stop, and the people in the city were chaotic.

It is not accurate to say that it is a chaotic people, because these suburbs outside Luoyang City, as well as the people of Chengzhou, Gongyi, Mengjin, and Jin, were withdrawn by the royal family on their own initiative, and they were planned, but they were not chaotic. Although in the eyes of the ministers, it was really unnecessary for the Son of Heaven to personally contact the small people, Zhou Bian believed that the stability of these 100,000 people was directly related to the stability of Luoyang City, and these people would also be one of the largest sources of soldiers for the royal family.

After running around for an afternoon, it was already sunset when I returned to the palace, and I didn't want to go back to the palace to ask, the white eunuch went to the eunuch to get the atlas and didn't come back, everyone was confused, Zhou Bian saw that there was still some time before dinner, so he waved his hand, "Let's go, this king will go to see it in person, and after returning to Luoyang Palace for so long, this king has never seen the classics in this palace." ”

Fan Yu accompanied, and the group went straight to the deep palace.

Soon arrived at the storage room, this is not a tall palace, but the Zhou royal family collects all kinds of classics, has always been under the control of Taishi Ling, and at this time, in the afterglow of the sunset, outside the palace gate, there is a short middle-aged man waiting respectfully here.

Seeing the king coming, the man in the robe bowed to the ground and shouted, "Li Tu, the chief historian of the palace of Luoyang, see my king!" ”

Zhou Bian didn't stretch out his hand to level his body, but asked, "Could it be that you are the Taishi official who said a year ago that he wanted this king to restore the system of four meals a day for the Son of Heaven?" ”

"It is here, today I heard that the king wants to read the world's atlas, so I want to take this opportunity to meet the king, and I hope the king will listen to me." The Taishi said respectfully.

But Zhou Bian was a little displeased, "That white prison has not returned for a long time, could it be that you detained it, so as to attract this king to come in person?" ”

"No, no. My lord, there are many classics in the storage room of my palace, and even the ministers don't know where the atlas of the world is, so the white eunuch has been looking for it in the palace since the afternoon. Maybe it's time to find it. The minister knew that the king liked to do it himself, and he would definitely come here to find out after seeing that the white eunuch did not return, so he waited here. ”

Hmph, after Zhou Bian snorted coldly, he raised his feet and walked into the hall. The great historian was also real, stood up by himself, patted the dust, and followed.

As soon as you enter this hall, you will see rows of bookshelves, just like the libraries of later generations, but what you visit on this bookshelf is not erected books, but rolls of bamboo slips, and some of the bookshelves are still animal skins and other things. The afterglow of the setting sun slanted in, and the dust could be clearly seen floating in the rays of light, but when I looked around, in the wide hall, I didn't know where the white prison was.

So Zhou Bian casually took out a roll of bamboo slips from the shelf next to him and opened it, but he was shocked by a pile of dust, and Zhou Bian had no choice but to take two steps back.

Walking in the main hall, he didn't think that the tall bookshelves seemed to have no edges, row after row, Zhou Bian couldn't help but wonder, "Didn't you say that during the rebellion of the Prince Dynasty, the Prince Dynasty took away most of the royal history books, why are there so many here?" ”

"As the king said, it is said that at that time the books in this storage room were empty, and my ancestors were punished for it. However, after the prince was ambushed, several generations passed, and the descendants of the prince's old bureaucrats returned to Luoyang with books. The Taishi official who followed behind hurriedly replied.

"Well, it seems that you are still aware of things, just now you said that you have something to say to this king, but what are you?" Zhou Bian turned around and asked.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, behind the layers of bookshelves, a happy voice suddenly sounded, "Lord Taishiguan, I found it." Immediately after, a few meters away, a person crawled out of the bookshelf, but it was the small temple man Bai Jian.

Bai Jian rubbed his eyes in a daze, and saw that the young man with a flat face in front of him was not the king, so he hurriedly knelt on the ground, "The king forgives the sin, the slave and maid are powerless, and they didn't find it until this time, alarming the prince himself, the slave and maid are guilty!" ”