After instilling some thoughts of love for the people in Yingzheng, Ziyou left the Qin Palace and headed towards the Academy of Sciences.

When he was about to arrive at the Academy of Sciences, Ziyou realized that he had forgotten to tell Ying Zheng about Yun Mengze. If you want to detonate the jade burning array on the overseas immortal island, you must first go to the overseas immortal island, and relying on the shipbuilding technology of the current Qin State alone, you can't cross the ocean at all.

"It seems that we have to discuss it with the Yin and Yang family and the public loser to get the mirage out." Ziyou muttered.

A behemoth like a mirage is basically of the same level as the treasure ships of Zheng He's voyage to the West in later generations, and even surpasses it. But the cost of building such a huge ship is also very huge, and these are all things that make Ziyou big.

The doorman of the Academy of Sciences saw Ziyou walking slowly and hurriedly stepped forward to salute

"Meet the Dean."

"Well, is there a public defeat?" Ziyou nodded and asked.

"Do you use us to inform the doctor, including the head of the public loser?" The doorman asked.

"No, I haven't been to the Academy for a long time, so I'll go in and see for myself." Ziyou said.

Since the official establishment of the Academy of Sciences, Ziyou, the dean, has never interfered except for the details of the Academy of Sciences, at most he has thrown the things in his mind to the relevant departments and let them study them, such as the gunpowder of the public loser, the steam engine of the Mo family, the hybrid rice of the farmer, and the Taoist to study physics.

As for how they studied, Ziyou didn't know at all, and he didn't even bother to ask. At the beginning, Ziyou only left a sentence and a general thing, I gave it to you, and you can tell me the finished product when you get it.

The guards of the Academy of Sciences could only take Ziyou to the place where he was inspected, and after the top and bottom inspections were completed, Ziyou was released. There are three such inspections, and whoever enters the Academy of Sciences has to go through inspections inside and out, except for Yingzheng.

After entering the Academy of Sciences, Ziyou didn't let people follow, but looked around by himself. Ziyou first went to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, which is under the jurisdiction of the farmer.

What catches the eye is a pepper house, these pepper houses are equivalent to the greenhouses of later generations, a peasant disciple is barefoot and shirtless in the ground fiddling with the things in his hands, Situ Wanli, who is a big farmer, and Xu Huan, the manager of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, are talking about something with a few old farmers on the ground about some melons and fruits.

"What are you doing?" Ziyou stepped forward and asked.

Hearing Ziyou's voice, several people looked blankly, and saluted and said after seeing Ziyou

"Meet the dean, I didn't know that the dean came, I missed the welcome, please forgive me."

"It's okay, I just returned to Xianyang. What are you talking about? Ziyou picked up a melon and fruit casually and said.

"We are discussing how to increase the yield of melons and fruits. We have researched a lot of methods from the books left by my husband, and after selecting and finding some suitable solutions, we can't do anything to make the production go to the next level. So we thought of the hybrid rice and hybrid wheat proposed by the husband, and wondered if the melons and fruits should also be hybridized in the flowering stage to increase the yield. Situ Wanli said.

Hearing Situ Wanli's words, Ziyou immediately asked instead of feeling that their ideas were bold

"So you've made a new discovery in the hybridization of rice and wheat?"

Xu Huan, who is in charge of hybrid rice and wheat, said

"It's not a new discovery, the dean is with us."

Under the leadership of Xu Huan, Ziyou came to another pepper room, where rice with full ears of rice grows, Xu Huan proudly introduced to Ziyou

"In these days of the dean's absence, although we have not completely completed the hybrid rice that the dean said, we have made small achievements, and these rice are the third product we have studied, and its yield has reached an unprecedented high.

And this is just rice, in the next pepper room is wheat, wheat is cultivated much faster than rice, and now wheat has cultivated a fourth crop, and the yield is more than three times that of before. ”

Xu Huan pushed open the door of another pepper room, the wheat inside was growing very fiercely, and Ziyou nodded.

"It seems that you are doing a good job, wheat and rice are the first priority, first cultivate these two crops, as for the melons and fruits, you can put them a little, if you want to cultivate, you can try them yourself." Ziyou encouraged.

Good ideas are always encouraged, even if they don't help with their ideas.

After leaving the farmhouse, Ziyou came to the place where Qin Mo was, the style in Qin Mo's territory was different from the thick and simple of the farmhouse, and there was a solemn and solemn and unrealistic sci-fi style everywhere.

In the wide courtyard, there were three huge white tigers, some Qin Mo disciples were studying and upgrading around the white tigers, and some old people were taking young disciples to learn about various parts or assembling something.

Xiang Li Guan also saw Ziyou under the reminder of his disciple, and greeted him after handing over the affairs in his hand to his disciple.

"Dean." Xiang Li is in the same way.

"Master Xiangli, why is the White Tiger here?" Ziyou looked at the three white tigers and said.

The mechanical drawings of the four divine beasts of the Mo family are all in the Mo family's organ city, even if it is a finished product, only the Mo family has it, and Qin Mo does not have it.

"After the Mo family settled in the Great Qin Xue Palace, the relationship between them and our Qin Mo eased a little. The current Mo family is a six-fingered black man sitting in the Great Qin School Palace, but all the big and small things are handed over to Jing Ke and his wife, Princess Gongsun Liji, and the two want to merge the Mo family again and let the Mo family return to its original peak.

In order to show their sincerity, they specially sent us five white tigers for Qin Mo to study. Aisato said.

At the beginning, the Mo family of the same line of the phase entered Qin, because the Qin State was not accepted by the Mo family at that time, so he did not allow Qin Mo of the same line of the phase to take away the drawings of the Vermilion Bird, the White Tiger, and the Xuanwu, and the Xiang Li Guan did not expect that he would be able to assemble a white tiger in his lifetime.

"Five? Why are there only three here? Ziyou asked.

"We also modified two more planes and sent them to the battlefield of Chu State. The public losers of the province, those fools, said that our Mo family can only cultivate the land or something. Xiang Li said angrily.

"I see. I have one thing to ask you. Ziyou said.

"Dean, please speak."

"What is the shipbuilding technology of the Mo family? If I want to build a big ship that can drift across the ocean, what do you think it can be built according to the existing technology of the Qin State? Ziyou said.

"It depends on the specific requirements of the dean. At present, Qin Mo's shipbuilding technology is enough to drive safely in a place like Yunmengze, if he wants to travel on the sea for a long time, Qin Mo's technology is still a little worse. Aisato said.

Shipbuilding technology is nothing in the Mo family, but sea ships are different, the Mo family's shipbuilding technology is aimed at river boats, sea ships and river ships are two different things.

Zi You said his request, and after listening to it, his brows furrowed, and what Zi You asked them to build was not so much a ship as a small Qin palace that could travel on the sea. Relying on the current technology, if there was no speed requirement, Qin Mo could still give it a try, but Ziyou had unprecedented requirements for technology and sturdiness, which made Xiang Liguan shake his head directly.

"Qin Mo's technology can't support it now, and if you start researching it now, it will probably take many years before you can hope to do it." Aisato said.

"What about the losers? Do they have such technology? Ziyou asked.

Hearing Ziyou mention the public loser, the first thing that came to Xiangliguan's mind was that they didn't have the skills that the Mo family didn't have, how could the public loser not have it. But seeing Ziyou looking so serious, Xiang Li Guan said

"I don't know about this, and it's impossible for me to know about the public loser."

"Well, you guys get busy. I heard that the White Tiger has a zero machine, which was built by Mozi, the ancestor of the Mo family, and wanted to give the White Tiger wings and let it soar in the sky? Ziyou asked again before leaving.

"There was such a thing, but it failed in the end. After that, the Mo family also put this matter on hold. Aisato said.

"I think you can study it again, isn't Suzaku successful? You may think about it again, as the so-called good attacker moves above the nine heavens, even if it can't be used for war, if it is used to transport goods, isn't it much more convenient? Ziyou said.

When Xiang Li Guan heard Ziyou's words, he still thought about the feasibility, and Ziyou didn't bother him but continued to go towards the territory of the public loser.

After entering the territory of the public loser, the atmosphere changed again, the territory of the public loser was full of solemnity and heavy atmosphere, the sound of the gears turning around came and went, the huge Red Lian King Snake Trap Beast was placed in the middle of the courtyard, and the Gong Loser was demonstrating to the disciples how to drive the Red Lian King Snake.

In addition to the Red Lian King Snake, there is also a ground-breaking Saburo and eleven sculptures in the courtyard. These sculptures correspond to the twelve zodiac signs, and there were originally twelve of the Trap Beasts of the Male Loser, but for various reasons, there are now only the Chilian King Snakes left, and the other Trap Beast drawings are even lost.

In a burst of exclamations from the disciples, Gong Lost Revenge walked down from the head of the Red Lian King Snake, pushed aside the crowd and came to Ziyou

"Sir, why did you come to me?"

"I just returned to Xianyang, I have something to look for you, how is the shipbuilding skills of the public loser? Is it possible to drive at sea? Ziyou said all his conditions.

Hearing Ziyou's words, the reaction of the public to lose the revenge also said as if it was coherent

"That old thing is right, the loser really can't meet the requirements of the gentleman. As far as I know, Baiyue's building boat technology may meet the needs of Mr. According to records, the ancient Yue people "traveled by water and in the mountains"; The ancient Yue people have always been good at making boats and skillful at driving boats. And this building ship is a kind of large warship invented by the ancient Yue people. The deck building of the building ship is particularly huge, the height of the ship is wide, and the appearance looks like a building, so it is called the "building ship". ”

"I've also heard about this, if you have the technology of the building ship, can you build a treasure ship like I said?" Ziyou said.

"You can try it, dare to ask Mr. why did he build such a treasure ship? According to him, if such a treasure ship were to be built, it would cost a lot of money. Gong Loser asked curiously.

"Nature is useful." Ziyou didn't say why.

Seeing that Ziyou was reluctant to say it, the public also knew that this matter was not something he could ask.

After Ziyou didn't get what he wanted from Gong Loser and Qin Mo, he left the Academy of Sciences and prepared to return to his Wangshi Mansion.

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Chu State, Dangyang.

At this time, Dangyang City did not have the previous calm, the Qin army had begun to attack the city, and the Chu army guarding Dangyang City naturally spared no effort to resist. Xiang Yan, who was located in the county guard's mansion, had already received a letter from Xiang Liang at this moment.

Xiang Bo looked at Xiang Yan with a gloomy face and asked

"Father, is there a problem with the second brother?"

"Wang Jian took Tangcheng with an army of 80,000 and is now attacking Suicheng. According to the news sent back by the spies, there were still 100,000 troops in the Qin State that were rushing towards the Chu State. Xiang Yan said in a deep voice.

At this moment, Xiang Yan also understood why Li Mu had besieged him before and did not attack him, not looking for any chance for a decisive battle, but to help Wang Jian delay time. As long as Wang Jian opened up the Hanshui to Yunmengze, he only needed to go down the river to directly bypass the defense line they had arranged on the front line of Dangyang, so as to directly attack Yingdu.

Although Xiang Yan was wary of this before, otherwise he would not have let Xiang Liang take people to garrison Tang City, but he underestimated the Qin State, but he didn't expect the Qin State to directly pull out the two armies. Although the combined number of the two armies is not much, the pressure on logistics and transportation has increased exponentially.

Xiang Yan handed over the information in his hand to Xiang Liang, and Xiang Liang also sighed with emotion after reading it

"This Qin State is still really rich."

"It was I who underestimated the national strength of the Qin State. Just finished attacking Zhao State, and launched another battle to destroy the country so quickly, it was still a two-way army, which I underestimated. Xiang Yan said helplessly.

"So what do we do now?" Xiang Liang asked.

"Give up the city. Let Xiang Liang keep their troops and withdraw to Jingling! Xiang Yan said.

"Huh?" Xiang Bo was taken aback by Xiang Yan's words, if he gave up Suicheng, then all the land north of Yunmengze would fall into the hands of the Qin State, so that there would be no defense north of Yunmengze, and at that time, I don't know how many people in Yingdu City would impeach them.

"Suicheng is now the place of death, and the idea of the Qin State is very clear, that is, it wants to fight on multiple fronts to drag us down and let us take care of ourselves. Suicheng is too far away from us, and even if we want to help, it won't help. The city is already small, and there are not many defenders, and if it is blindly held, it will not do any good except for sending more soldiers to death.

But Jingling is different, Jingling is the main road between Yunmengze and Yingdu, and its walls are solid and heavy, enough to resist the siege of 100,000 troops. Controlling Jingling is enough to resist the attacks of Ganyukou and Yun Mengze. If Liang'er and they retreat to Jingling with a large army, then take Dangyang as the front line and unite Jingling, Yingdu, and Jiangling. Relying on Yunmengze and the river water is enough to form a solid line of defense. Xiang Yan said.

"But will the king allow it? If we really give up Suicheng, although our defense line can be connected, we are really unwilling to give hundreds of miles of land to the Qin State! Xiang Bo said.

(End of chapter)