Chapter 10 The Old Man of the Qin Palace
Zhao Chengping rushed to Cai Ze like a whirlwind and grabbed his collar: "What did you say to Childe!" ”
"It's nothing, it's just that when I brought Mr. back last night, Pingyuan-kun sent someone to look for him, and when I saw that Mr. was asleep at that time, I told the person who came that Mr. would wait until dawn before leaving. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info he seemed to be angry and left. Also, just now, the king invited Pingyuan Jun into the palace again. Cai Ze still had a gentle face.
Zhao Chengping let go of his hand and walked around the room: "Impossible, I didn't say anything." ”
"Yes."
"Childe will definitely believe me."
"What if Pingyuan-kun doesn't believe me?"
"Then give each other hands, and I will choose another master." Zhao Chengping left in a hurry.
When he had just arrived at King Qin's palace, he happened to see King Qin and Pingyuan Jun coming out together, and Pingyuan Jun snorted coldly: "What are you still doing here?" ”
Zhou Yuan and other doormen also glared at him angrily.
Seeing this situation, King Qin smiled and said, "It's just a coincidence, let's take a look at my Great Qin Army Formation." ”
The military order of the Great Qin Army is like a mountain, and the position of each soldier is exquisite, and what is shown to Pingyuanjun here is naturally just an ordinary phalanx, but what makes Pingyuanjun secretly frightened is the Qin crossbow in the hands of the soldiers in the back row, which looks somewhat similar to ordinary crossbows, but with the commander's order, the range of the arrows shot out is much more than the crossbow arrows used by the Six Kingdoms.
Qin Guo didn't know when he would improve the craftsmanship of the bow and crossbow to such a point, sooner or later, it would be a big trouble for Zhao Guo.
King Zhaoxiang looked at Pingyuan Jun's face, and felt quite proud in his heart, this is the transformation and innovation of the old bow and crossbow by countless skilled craftsmen of the Qin State, and the power is four or five times stronger than in the past.
He opened his mouth and said, "I don't know if Zhao Guoke can stop such a strong crossbow?" ”
Before Pingyuan Jun could speak, Zhao Chengping snorted coldly, and King Zhaoxiang's face was slightly gloomy: "What, do you have something to say?" ”
"This kind of thing that the children of Zhao Kingdom can do, and they also boast about themselves, isn't there no one in the Qin Kingdom?"
Someone on the side shouted: "Nonsense! This is my Great Qin who has just created a strong crossbow, how dare you say that it is your Zhao Guo's children's capital? Be careful to blow the cowhide and it is not easy to clean up. ”
Zhao Chengping did not answer, but only said to the king of Qin: "If the king doesn't believe it, I can prove it to the king." Please give me a piece of charcoal, a sheepskin for calligraphy and painting. ”
When the charcoal and sheepskin arrived, Zhao Chengping seemed to be dissatisfied with the charcoal, so he asked for a knife, carefully sharpened the end of the pen, and tried it on the edge of the sheepskin.
At first, the person who spoke just now still looked disdainful, but with the stroke of the stroke, his face gradually changed, and his breathing became short, and as Zhao Chengping's last stroke ended, the man was almost unsteady on his feet. A palace man had already presented the sheepskin to King Zhaoxiang, who only glanced at it and asked, "How do you know?!" ”
Immediately, there were warriors holding halberds against each other, and Zhao Chengping smiled indifferently: "I said it earlier, this is something that Zhao Guo's children will know." ”
It turned out that what he depicted on the sheepskin was the pattern of the parts of the bronze crossbow machine improved by the Qin State, and the power of the Qin crossbow was greatly improved compared with the crossbow in the past.
The person standing on the side was the master craftsman who was in charge of the design of the crossbow machine, and he couldn't believe it, but Zhao Chengping's parchment scroll clearly drew the design he had just completed, and even the details were exactly the same, and the evidence was irrefutable.
Seeing the appearance of the master craftsman bowing his head and not saying a word, King Zhaoxiang hatefully threw the sheepskin to the ground, and then brushed his sleeves away.
This hit King Zhaoxiang's confidence in the technology of the Qin army, and it should be of some use to suspend the battle of Changping, but Zhao Chengping knew that the reason why the Qin army swept the six countries relied on the army system, relied on the soldiers who were not afraid of death, and the weapons were only auxiliary.
If you want to win the battle of Changping through military affairs, then the entire military system of Zhao needs to be reformed, this is ...... I'm afraid that it's not my own Plains Jun's doorman who can have the final say, King Zhao Wuling wants to change his Hufu and ride and shoot and has been nagged by his courtiers for a long time, and there is no arbitrariness at that time.
Thinking of this, Zhao Chengping sighed silently.
Soon someone came over and passed on the order of King Qin, asking Pingyuan Jun to go back to the post house to rest.
Zhao Chengping was about to leave with him, but the person who came said: "The king has an order, please invite Mr. Zhao to come in." ”
I don't know if this is evil or lucky, Zhao Chengping looked at Pingyuanjun, who looked at him and nodded: "Go ahead." ”
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was called into the palace of King Qin alone, Zhao Chengping didn't know what King Qin wanted to do, and he was still a little nervous.
In the side hall, the king of Qin and four or five ministers, the heavily armed guards were solemnly lined up on both sides. Zhao Chengping found at a glance that Cai Ze was also among them, as well as the master craftsman.
Which play is this? Tongue war, or flickering job-hopping?
If the enemy doesn't move, I won't move, let's see what tricks King Qin and the others are going to play.
Zhao Chengping went to the hall, walked according to the courtesy, sat on the seat, without a trace of waves on his face, and the king of Qin spoke first:
"Do you know what brought you here?"
"I don't know."
On the side, Cai Ze said: "Zhao Guo doesn't have this kind of crossbow machine at all, let alone any children. ”
The investigation is very fast, it seems that the Qin State has infiltrated a lot of spies in the Zhao State, and he has been drawing for a long time just now, and the King of Qin seems to be fooled, but in fact, he just wants to relax himself. Zhao Chengping's heart hung in the air.
"Where did you get the crossbow diagram?" This is the main concern of the master craftsman.
The Qin State was extremely strict with the household registration of the population, not to mention the people who were called to carry out this very important weapon research and development work, all of them had found out the eighteen generations of their ancestors, and they had never left the heavily guarded smelting workshop.
In the end, the only people who saw the picture were himself, King Qin and Prime Minister Fan Sui. If Zhao Chengping couldn't tell the source of the crossbow machine diagram, not to mention the craftsmen in the smelting workshop, the master craftsmen themselves would have to fall to the ground.
Therefore, the most nervous about the leakage of drawings is the master craftsman. As for King Qin, what he thought was that if even such a confidential drawing would be leaked, then how many spies from the Six Kingdoms would be beside him, and whether there would be assassins from the Six Palaces in the palace. Who else can be trusted?
A crisis of confidence is the best weapon to destroy a country's power.
And Zhao Chengping has now let the signs of this crisis appear.
Zhao Chengping smiled deeply: "Such a simple thing, do you still need to see it to know?" I could guess the design from a distance. ”
"Don't be ashamed!"
Apparently no one believed his words.
"King, this person dares to claim that he can see through the inside at a glance from afar, so it is better to let him try the Queen Mother's treasure box!" It was an old man he didn't know.
Hearing this, King Qin nodded: "Come on, go and get the Queen Mother's treasure box." ”
Someone passed inside, and a woman came out with a box.
Zhao Chengping, who has always been very calm, saw it, his face changed abruptly, his mouth opened slightly, and his eyes were straight.
The box was very smooth, and from the outside, there was no trace at all, just like a whole piece of wood, King Qin pointed to the box and said:
"Can you open this box?"
Zhao Chengping was completely distracted, as if he hadn't heard what King Qin was saying.
The ministers beside him laughed at Zhao Chengping in their hearts, and sure enough, the braggart Zhao Chengping couldn't break the secret of the treasure box, and he was stupid.
And what really scared Zhao Chengping was not the treasure box, but the person who came with the box - Xiao Ling.
Isn't she supposed to get some kind of queen's jewelry in ancient Egypt? Why is it in the palace of King Qin, or a harem?