The old blacksmith glanced at Chen Sheng in surprise, and then said after a while: "The young master is really powerful!" The reason why my family's sword-forging is different is that the method of tempering is different from others, and the reason is that it is because of the water. This water was brought back from a spring deep in the mountains, and the sword was tempered with my family tradition, and the toughness and strength of the sword were first-class. It can be described as indomitable. ”

Hearing this, Chen Sheng's eyes lit up. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were many sword names handed down. Some of these swords have survived to future generations, and many of them are still razor-sharp. That's not all, the most amazing thing is that these swords also have the memory function of the artifact, even if they are bent by the boulder, but after the pressure disappears, the metal will not return to the magical effect of the original memory metal. This technology only began to be discovered by people in the twentieth century, but thousands of years ago, the ancients had already used it to make swords!

Chen Sheng believes that the toughness that the old blacksmith spoke of is similar to the characteristics of this memory metal. The most important thing may be that it comes from the spring in the stone trough, and the spring puddle has some kind of metal ions, and in the process of quenching the metal, these metal ions attach to the tempered sword body, and after repeated many times, it forms the form of an alloy, which enhances the strength and toughness of the metal. It has become a legendary sword that sharpens iron like clay.

Chen Sheng was very interested in the old blacksmith's forging method. I wanted to inquire carefully, but thinking of this magical forging method, how could the old blacksmith easily say it, so he had to hold back his thoughts for the time being. But Chen Sheng was not polite, and immediately asked the old blacksmith to make him a batch of strange weapons. It is extremely difficult for the old blacksmith with incomparably rich experience in forging. Fortunately, Chen Sheng's weapons have detailed drawings that can be referred to, otherwise it would be really difficult to deal with.

After chatting with the old blacksmith for a while, Chen Sheng asked Fan Cheng to continue to have fun here, while he went back to the room and wrote a recital for His Majesty the Emperor.

On the way to Panyu, he had already made up his mind to write more recitals for the emperor, and strive to be more familiar. When you think about it, you have to do it.

Chen Sheng's recital is not short. And there are a lot of aspects involved. At the beginning, it started with the war in Lingnan. It's different from the generals in Lingnan. When the armies of all walks of life in Lingnan gave a chapter to the emperor, they basically stretched out their hands to ask for money, food and soldiers, or to ask for war merits and rewards. Every time the emperor saw it, he would have a headache when he thought of the huge expenses.

But Chen Sheng is different from others. After briefly explaining the situation in Lingnan in his recital, he made a request: withdraw the troops!

Certainly not a total withdrawal. Chen Sheng believes that now that civil strife has arisen in Lingnan, the Qin army can sit back and enjoy its success, and there is no need to Chen hundreds of thousands of soldiers, but only need to leave 100,000 to 200,000 elite soldiers and gradually encroach on them. The six-way Qin army only needs to leave three roads, gather from South Vietnam, and after destroying South Vietnam, then calmly advance and eliminate Xiou in one fell swoop. In this way, the Qin army could reduce the military food expenditure of nearly 300,000 troops, and the huge amount of money saved could be used to develop the resources of the conquered areas in Lingnan and obtain huge revenues for the empire.

Second, Chen Sheng mentioned the emperor's upcoming tour. Chen Sheng said in the recital that the Eastern Tour of Zen is a major event. But it should not be extravagant and wasteful. In order to show the wealth of the royal family, taxes and forced labor should not be levied on the local Qianshou people, but should also be reduced or exempted to show the emperor's grace, etc., etc., etc.

Originally, Chen Sheng still had a lot of proposals, but he also felt that after putting so many ideas and measures up at once, the emperor didn't know what he would feel when he saw it. So I had to endure it for the time being. He will write to the emperor every two days.

Chen Sheng didn't know that the emperor thought deeply of his own book, but it made the civil and military officials of the imperial court very annoyed. There is no other reason, in their opinion, Chen Sheng has crossed the line.

The march and withdrawal of troops are all issues that only the imperial court and military are qualified to discuss. Even the former military commander Ren Huan, when he made such a suggestion, he had to greet the military bigwigs first, discuss it in private, and then report it in a twisted way. This is the unspoken rule of the imperial court, but Chen Sheng's book bypassed the military and went directly into the hands of the emperor, making them very passive. How to keep the military from being annoyed.

But the dissatisfaction of the military is nothing compared to the reaction of the civilian officials of the imperial court, and the reaction of the military commander.

Many officials want to take advantage of the emperor's eastern tour to make a lot of money, not to mention that to accompany the emperor on his tour, all localities must levy labor taxes, and the local officials will not use all the money collected temporarily to the emperor's patrol expenses, and will inevitably withhold part of it, and will give them generous gifts. But if the emperor adopted Chen Sheng's suggestion and let Shaofu pay out of his pocket and come to travel at his own expense, then where would the civil officials have an excuse to ask for money from below?! Cutting off people's financial means is tantamount to killing their parents, Chen Sheng's move really angered many officials, including county guards and county officials who want to get rich.

The most depressing thing is that Chen Sheng has angered the Manchu officials, but he doesn't know it. It wasn't until he returned to the barracks and received a letter from his teacher that he learned that the court officials were dissatisfied with him. Only then did I know that the impeachment of him in the imperial court has increased greatly recently, some of them scolded him for selling his reputation and reputation, some of them accused him of colluding with officials and businessmen to enrich his own pockets, and some people even accused him of colluding with the local Yue people and Tu people in Fujian to plot against him...... For a while, the rising rookie of the imperial court became a big villain in the blink of an eye. It's just changing too fast.

However, the scolding lasted less than a few days. After reading Chen Sheng's recital, the emperor summoned Wang Ben, the chief lieutenant, to discuss for a few days, and then gave an order to Ren Huan on the southern front line to withdraw the attack on Xi'ou and suspend the attack on Xi'ou in the spring of the next year. Let Ren Huan deal with the war in South Vietnam with all his might.

But to the surprise of the leader, only one of the two armies withdrew to the hinterland of Qin, and the other was sent by Ren Huan to participate in the construction of the Ling Canal. With the addition of nearly 100,000 troops, the progress of Lingqu can be completed more quickly.

As soon as the imperial edict came out, many civil officials changed their rudder and stopped attacking Chen Sheng. The imperial historian Feng Zai, who even wrote to the emperor, agreed with Chen Sheng's recital: The emperor should pay for the parade himself. Moreover, Feng Zheng put forward a news suggestion that made the officials feel that it was bad news: since the emperor himself has paid for it, should the hundred officials who accompanied the emperor on his tour also take some money out?

This suggestion is a bit excessive. The emperor felt that something was wrong, but he asked Shaofu to take out 200,000 gold as the cost of this tour. 200,000 gold may seem like a lot, but it is by no means enough. Fortunately, the new Shaofu Zhang Han had some brains, and suggested that the emperor celebrate with the whole world, take out a few places to sell, and let those big businessmen bid to buy them, so as to obtain the qualification to accompany the emperor on patrol.

Although this move was unanimously opposed by the prime minister and the doctors of the Xianyang Academy. But the emperor thought it was a good idea, and with a stroke of the pen, five places were vacated, with a reserve price of 10,000 gold, and an uncapped auction method to raise funds and replace the collection of taxes by the people.