The next morning, walking out of the door of Tu's house, Wang Sunman couldn't help wiping his sweat, seeing that this old man of Tu's family was more difficult than going to Quyi to make friends with Xin's, although the old man Tu was old, but he was very shrewd, and he could be found out immediately if he accidentally answered the wrong word, and it was not easy to cope with it, but after going out, Wang Sunman only felt that his clothes were wet with sweat. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This Tu Huang was originally a historian of the Jin Kingdom, and fled to Luoyang after the three families were divided, and the father of the Duke of Zhou, Zhou Weigong, had come to the door to ask for advice, and Zhou Bian's deceased brother Brother Xianwang also came to the door to ask for advice, but Tu Huang never came out. The Tu clan was able to vote for the current king, but it was all thanks to Bai Gui. Coincidentally, this Bai Gui is invincible in business, as for others, not everyone can do this, some time ago, the Tu family's business did a lot of losses, seeing that the family was about to be broken, but it was Bai Gui who helped, and the Tu family was friendly with the Bai family, plus Bai Gui was ambitious, able to speak, and visited from time to time, so he quickly won the favor of the old man Tu. At the beginning, Bai Gui didn't think about serving the royal family, so he didn't take it seriously to be friendly with the Tu family, but now he found that the unintentional actions of the year might come in handy, so under the persuasion of the two sons, Old Man Tu also fell to the current king on behalf of his two sons. Maybe this is the intention of Heaven to help Zhou Bian.

However, as a royal family, it is natural to send someone to visit Old Man Tu, after all, Wang Sunman is not easy to attract attention compared to Taishi and Young Master and others, and Wang Sunman can also say a few words, so this task was handed over to Wang Sunman. Out of the Tu family's door, Wang Sunman still had palpitations, and he really had to be careful when talking to the elders. Fortunately, he didn't upset the old man, and sent a pair of jade bibs carefully prepared by the king, and finally successfully completed the task, and he could return to Chengzhou in the afternoon.

At the same time, in the palace of Chengzhou, Zhou Bian was idle and bored, and the task was ordered, naturally there were Taishi and they went to work, but he was grounded in the palace by the Queen Mother, no matter where he went, there was Bai Jian behind him, a little closer to the palace gate, Bai Jian posed as the queen, which made Zhou Bian irritable. I could only go to Cao Jiuzheng to have a look, but it was still fermenting, and I couldn't see anything famous, so Zhou Bian walked out bored after a while. If you can still leave the palace like before, how good it would be to supervise the training of soldiers in the barracks. So the bored Zhou Bian had to gather a group of close guards again, and practiced in the square in front of the Chongde Hall as he had just started.

In the blink of an eye, Wang Sunman brought back good news from Luoyang, and then the young master went to Luoyang, in front of the Duke of Zhou, although Ning Yue did not support the royal family to recruit troops again, but he could not say it in a grand manner, and could only hint at the Duke of Zhou again and again, and the hesitant Duke of Zhou was praised and reasoned by the Xin brothers, thinking that he had just received a management fee of 10,000 yuan from the royal family, so he quickly agreed to the young master's request.

The farmers in the countryside of Luoyang have no resistance to the royal recruitment this time, because there is news from Cheng Zhou, the royal family really sent a reward, so it is rare to have a scene of enthusiastic registration, the excited young master is eager to recruit all at once, but I think of the fear of stimulating Zhou Gong, so in line with the principle of not indiscriminately filling the number, the young master still selected two hundred people from it and brought them back to Cheng Zhou.

The barracks in Chengzhou City were full after being loaded with three hundred Imperial Forest Army, as early as the last court meeting, Zhou Bian put forward a plan to build another barracks outside the east gate, neither planting seedlings nor harvesting in June and July, it happened to be not the busy season for farming, so although the weather was hot, but just because it was waiting to be used, he still gathered people to do it. This is a big project that the royal family has not had for many years, and the busy Sikong and others rushed back and forth, but fortunately, two hundred new recruits were soon added, and with the efforts of thousands of people, a simple military camp was erected in ten days. However, according to Zhou Bian's requirements, it was to be built into a small outer city with a defensive role, so Sikong and others commanded the peasants and recruits to build a high rammed earth wall outside the barracks.

Good things come in pairs, it is gratifying that a few days later, Cao Jiuzheng also came with good news, sent a few jars of rice wine to come, all of them were fragrant, it seems that the first time to make wine with rice was successful, and after it was handed over to Jian Jia to distill into a high number of liquor, the aroma is even more extraordinarily strong, far more than the distillation of millet rice wine and soju, took a sip, Zhou Bian couldn't help but sigh loudly, and finally tasted the taste of his hometown. However, white rice is still much more expensive than millet rice, and I am afraid that for a long time to come, sake made from rice will only be sold as high-end sake.

As expected, the liquor was sent to Luoyang, which immediately won the praise of the Tu family, and the Tu family, who had always wanted to suppress the natural side, finally put his mind at ease, and immediately decided that the Tu family would be responsible for providing rice, and the royal family would brew the liquor and collect a certain fee from it. Considering that the Tu family will also be an important minister of the royal family in the future, the fact that the liquor is brewed from rice is not hidden from them. As a result, Cao Jiuzheng finally got busy, and the number of female slaves who made wine increased by ten, and the number of workers in the brewery who were responsible for distilling liquor was also expanded. So on the whole, the royal family's industry is thriving, but fortunately, Chengzhou City is very small, and there are not many people in and out, so the secrecy is also easy to manage, and I am not afraid of any problems for a while.

Of course, these days, although Zhou Bian has not left the palace, he lives in the palace and remotely controls various matters outside the palace, but he also has a feeling of being in control. However, there are not many things that need to be controlled remotely by yourself, and when he is free, Zhou Bian not only continues to practice swords and train guards, but also quiets down from time to time to recall the knowledge of future generations in his mind to see if he can help himself again.

In later life, I studied engineering, what engineering control, what calculus, what motors, it is useless in this era, I can't think of a good idea, and I am a little annoyed for a while, do you really want to get out the terminator gunpowder of cold weapons? For **, Zhou Bian is too familiar, isn't it sulfur, charcoal powder and nitrate, sulfur is a natural ore, I have seen it in Songshan, toner needless to say, I thought the most difficult saltpeter to find was also seen when I saw the royal craftsmen making leather armor, but in Zhou Bian's heart is still extremely reluctant to let gunpowder come to the world in advance, because this epoch-making invention will change the pattern of the whole world, if it is not well controlled, it will even destroy an era, if there is no strong Han Tang China is still China, Therefore, Zhou Bian didn't want to change the world in this big pattern, so the gunpowder matter was always put by Zhou Bian as the last option. With his 2,000 years of historical knowledge, can't he still win a group of ancients? Zhou Bian still has a pride in his heart.

In the midst of his troubles, he suddenly saw a little fat man in white running over, muttering in his mouth, "King, it's not fair, the Fan team is using an iron sword, and I am using a bronze sword given by the king. ”

Bai Wuxian has also stayed here for a while, and without his father's discipline, he has also let go a lot. ran behind Zhou Bian's ass every day, and no one forced him to read, so he often played with Fan Yu and them, and everyone liked this outspoken little fat man very much, so they quickly got together.

Hearing Bai Wuxi's words, Zhou Bian's eyes suddenly lit up, and the pieces of iron ingots hidden in the palace appeared, how good it would be if they could be practiced, a good iron sword would be easy to cut through the bronze shield, and the sharp soldiers in their hands were far better than practicing swordsmanship, and they could quickly improve their combat effectiveness, and what Bai Wuxi said was not unreasonable.

Find the direction of the effort to do it, after coaxing away Bai Wuxi, Zhou Bian pondered, last time I saw Luoyang's Zi Buyuan iron-making iron pot, it seems to be just a casting process, and they don't know forging, plus the famous steel frying method of later generations has not heard of at this time, it seems that there is really a lot of room for development, thinking of this, Zhou Bian, who was lying down boring, jumped up with joy, but was frightened by the guards next to him.

Since the queen mother did not let herself out of the palace, then she moved the things outside the palace into the palace, which was Zhou Bian's countermeasure, so after the king gave an order, there were a large number of guards and slaves busy, and recalled Zi not far from Luoyang, and after the iron-making furnace was transformed according to Zhou Bian's requirements, the first blast furnace of the Zhou Dynasty was born in the palace.

The Queen Mother also came to see it from time to time, but she did not object to these novelties made by Zhou Bian, and thought that it would take some words to persuade the Queen Mother, but she didn't want to save Zhou Bian a lot of trouble. So one day in the middle of July, it was a day of blazing sun, and after ordering Jian Jia to take a few iron ingots, the first blast furnace of the Great Zhou began to operate.

In order to increase the furnace temperature, Zhou Bian invented the blower, designed the air outlet duct, and then used the blower to blow the finely ground toner in, which was really much better. Inside the blast furnace, there is also a blower to help oxidize the carbon in the pig iron, and a long iron rod to reach into the molten iron to stir it. The two small steps of blowing and stirring are the essence of the frying method.

Although the summer is hot, the temperature next to the blast furnace is unbearable. Under the repeated persuasion of the guards, Zhou Bian left the hot hearth and returned to the house to wait. Fortunately, it didn't take long for the good news to come the next day. Zi was not far away from the original, and the craftsmen in the palace also knew the method, so the first furnace of molten iron was made into several iron rods. After cooling down, it was sent to the king's frame, Zhou Bian waved it and looked at it carefully, and it really had more toughness, and the masters in the palace were naturally knowledgeable and praised one after another. However, Zhou Bian was still not satisfied, and passed on the method of forging to make him hammer into a sword. Zhou Bian knew that the forging method was to burn the iron rod red and beat it repeatedly, and when its temperature was reduced to not red, it was soaked in cold water, cooled and then returned to the furnace to heat, and then repeated this process after it was red.

By the time the first Hundred Refining Sword was delivered to Zhou Bian, it was already the beginning of August, and the Hundred Refining Sword had gone through a hundred times of repeated forging and dipping in fire. It is also thanks to the craftsmen in the palace who do not stop the furnace and beat day and night, so they rushed to produce it. This Hundred Refining Sword is about the height of Zhou Bian's chest, and it still refers to the heavy style of the bronze sword, but it is white and shining, and there are even some fine lines on the sword body, which are the lines left after being dipped in fire. After repeated beating, it was carefully polished with a grinding stone, which became the current regular appearance, and more than 20 people were busy for more than half a month to make a handful, which shows that in a purely artificial environment, its rarity is still quite high.

Ordered Zhou Mi to pull out the bronze sword at his waist, Zhou Bian took a deep breath, swung it hard, only to feel that when the two swords were staggered, it was like cutting on the soil, this was a duel between the two eras, only to see the iron sword unhindered downward, and then look at the bronze sword has become two halves, and with a bang, the first half of the sword fell to the ground.

Half of the room was filled with the sound of gasping for cool air, and after a long time, everyone who reacted cheered it, and the fierce color sound soared into the sky, as if the roof was about to be overturned. Such a huge difference, such an exciting moment, I am afraid that many people present here will remember it for the rest of their lives.