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Xiang Ye didn't look at the stirrups in Di Yao's hands, he knew very well that the stirrups were only officially used to equip the cavalry after hundreds of years, and he didn't know that the stirrups in Di Yao's hands were still a primitive design, and according to the manufacturing method of the stirrups in her hands, it was better for him to build them with his memories of riding horses in tourist attractions in the past.

"You're here to play, I have important things to do!" Thinking of this, Xiang Ye greeted the three 'women', turned around and left, and as soon as he reached the 'door', he turned back to Di Yu and said, "Di Yu is second, I want to go to your bedroom to find you later, and I want to ask you for advice on some things." ”

After leaving the 'Meng' Su Dormitory, Xiang Ye walked straight towards the outside of the palace. He's going to the forge and he's going to draw the drawings himself, so that the blacksmiths can build something. In addition, he had the idea of ordering people to collect saltpeter, charcoal, and sulfur needed to make gunpowder.

Entering the forging workshop, Xiang Ye couldn't help frowning as soon as he saw the weapons created by the craftsmen.

Most of the bronze weapons were made in the forge, and the few iron swords were also made for the generals.

"That's all you make here?" Xiang Ye casually picked up a copper sword more than a foot long and frowned and asked the steward of the forging workshop, "Do you want my soldiers to use this weapon to fight the enemy?" ”

Seeing that Xiang Ye's face was not good, the steward of the forging workshop hurriedly knelt down on the ground and said: "Back to the king, the minister also wants to equip the whole army with iron weapons, but the pig iron is insufficient, and it is difficult to build!" ”

Xiang Ye didn't pay attention to the steward, but frowned and looked at the copper sword in his hand carefully, and after a long time, he 'handed over' the sword to Erhu who was standing aside and said, "You take this sword, hold it flat and don't move!" ”

Erhu took the bronze sword in confusion, held it flatly, and looked at Xiang Ye blankly.

Xiang Ye made a straight face, 'drawn' the long sword from his waist, and slashed at the bronze sword in the hand of the second tiger.

"Boom!" After a sound that seemed to cut through the cloth, the bronze sword was split in two by the waist, and the broken tip of the sword fell to the ground, lying flat on the ground without even flicking.

"This is the weapon you built?" Xiang Ye 'inserted' the long sword back into the sheath and said to the steward of the forging workshop: "From now on, melt all these bronze garbage you have created for me, and forge it into a giant sword tree in the square of the city, I will use it to tell my subjects that the country of the Nine Plains Kingdom is force!" ”

The steward of the forge fell to his knees, trembling all over his body and didn't dare to answer Xiang Ye's words, but a pair of eyes were secretly aiming at his heels.

"Erhu, Han Sheng shouldn't have left yet, you immediately ask him to go to Xichu, discuss with Father Ya, and ask Father Ya to help us 'get' a batch of iron. Of course, the bigger the better! "After giving the order to the steward of the forging workshop, Xiang Ye said another 'handover' to Erhu, and led a team of guards who came with him out of the forging workshop.

He had originally come here to let the craftsmen study the process of making stirrups, and he also wanted to try to build a batch of ironclad chariots, but after seeing the weapons created in the forge workshop, he gave up these ideas for the time being, and according to the current level of the workshop, he could not make the things he needed at all.

After Xiang Ye, who was full of depression, left the forge workshop, he walked straight towards Wu Wei's mansion.

From the forge to the Prime Minister's Mansion, there are three small roads, which are not very busy, but on weekdays there are some farmers from the countryside who sell their own grain and other crops.

As soon as he walked into the first path, Xiang Ye felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere. When he first came to the country, he exempted the commoners from the need to make a great salute to see him, and when the commoners saw him, they only had to stand at a distance and bow their heads slightly as a sign of respect.

But when the civilians on this path saw him, they knelt on the ground, and did not even dare to look up at him.

Xiang Ye glanced at the civilians kneeling on both sides of the road, frowned, and only when he walked out of the intersection did he whisper to a guard behind him: "Go and tell Jing Ao and tell him that his Yulin Army has something to do, I'm afraid there will be a little excitement in Jiuyuan City in the past two days!" ”

Although the guard didn't quite understand why Xiang Ye said this, he still responded and went around the road and went to the military camp of the Yulin Army to find Jing Ao.

The situation of the second path is not much better than the first, the civilians on this road also knelt on the ground and did not dare to look up after seeing him, the funny thing is that the people on the street did not dare to look up, but the civilians who stayed at home and did not go out of the 'door' opened their windows one after another after hearing that the king was coming, and looked at Xiang Ye with a very admiring gaze.

All kinds of strange phenomena made Xiang Ye a little more vigilant in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face at all, but continued to walk towards the Prime Minister's Mansion.

I don't know if it's because it's close to the Prime Minister's Mansion, the civilians on the third path are much more normal, and when they saw Xiang Ye, they just stood on both sides of the road and bowed their heads to greet him.

Xiang Ye smiled and beckoned to these civilians, and walked to the 'door' of the Prime Minister's Mansion surrounded by a group of guards.

Wu Wei heard the report from his retainers that Xiang Ye was coming, and hurriedly greeted him. When he arrived outside the 'gate' of the mansion, he knelt on the ground and said to Xiang Ye: "The minister didn't know that the king was coming, and it was a capital crime to miss the welcome!" ”

Xiang Ye smiled and stepped forward to pick up Wu Wei and whispered in his ear: "The prime minister gave me such a big salute outside the palace, I am really a little overwhelmed, don't do this in the future, you must know that you are also my brother!" ”

After listening to Xiang Ye's words, Wu Wei bowed down and said in the same low voice: "It is the honor of Weichen to be brothers with the king, but there must be a dignity in front of outsiders, otherwise how to establish the prestige of the king?" ”

"Well, that's right!" Xiang Ye patted Wu Wei on the shoulder and said to him: "Let's go into the inner hall and say, there are a few things I want to discuss with you, and I will 'hand' them over to you." ”

Wu Wei answered, and followed Xiang Ye into the main hall of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

After the two of them sat down, Xiang Ye didn't beat around the bush, and said directly to Wu Wei: "Just now I saw Di Yu take out something called 'stirrups' in the harem, and I was thinking at that time that if I can equip our cavalry with stirrups, it will definitely make them ride more steadily on horseback, and I won't suffer a big loss when I fight against the Hun cavalry in the future!" ”

"The king came to me all the way, it shouldn't be just such a trivial matter." After listening to Xiang Ye's narration about stirrups, Wu Wei nodded and continued: "For something like this, you only need to 'hand' it over to the forging workshop, presumably the king has other more important things." ”

"The prime minister is really sharp!" Xiang Ye smiled and said: "There are two other things, one is that I have already asked Han Sheng to inform Han Sheng, asking him to go south this time, take a trip from Xichu by the way, and find Yafu to help buy some iron, I want to equip the whole army with iron weapons; Another thing is that I want to set up a new department, specializing in some technology that no one else has mastered! ”

"Technology?" Wu Wei tilted his head and showed a 'confused' look on his face, and asked Xiang Ye, "What is technology?" ”

"Even when we are fighting, our weapons are more advanced than others!" Xiang Ye groaned for a moment, and did not explain to Wu Wei what technology was, but said to him: "I have a recipe here, according to this formula, I can make something called gunpowder, with this thing, it will definitely be able to cause a wide range of damage to our enemies in the future." I'll give you the formula, and you can find some people who are interested in researching novelties, and set up a secret government to engage in the research and development of advanced weapons! ”

"Please give the name of the new palace!" Wu Wei frowned, and said with some uncertainty: "Doing this kind of thing must have 'spent' a lot of money, and the treasury of our Jiuyuan Country is empty, I'm afraid we can't support it!" ”

"Don't think about that, just research!" Xiang Ye waved his hand at Wu Wei, stood up and said, "I should go back, I told Di Yu earlier that I wanted her to wait for me in the dormitory, presumably she has been waiting for a long time at this time." By the way, there is another thing, I plan to change the name of Jiuyuan Country to 'Xia', which means that we are all descendants of the Huaxia clan, what do you think? ”

"Feasible!" Wu Wei stood up, bowed to Xiang Ye and said, "I'll do these things immediately, the king just rest assured!" ”

After coming out of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Xiang Ye did not take a small road, but made a big circle and returned to the palace from the main road of Jiuyuan City.

Along the way, he didn't encounter the expected attack, and after returning to the palace without incident, he began to wonder if his previous decision to let Jing Ao strengthen the city's defenses was correct.

Although the civilians on those two paths behaved abnormally, they were not inexplicable, perhaps they were from the countryside and did not know the rules of Jiuyuan City.

Thinking of this, Xiang Ye was a little calmer, left the guards who accompanied him out of the palace, and walked towards Di Yao's bedroom under the escort of a group of 'female' guards.

When he was about to arrive at the dormitory, Xiang Qing, who was wearing armor and full uniform, blocked his way with several palace 'maids' with his hands on his waist.

Seeing Xiang Qing's dress, Xiang Ye couldn't help but feel a little funny, and stepped forward to ask her, "What are you doing here?" The harem is not a battlefield, why are you dressed like this? Could it be that you didn't talk well with Di Yao, you set up a position in the harem to have a big battle between the Central Plains and the Huns? ”

Xiang Qing glanced at Xiang Ye with a cold face and said: "The cronies who stayed outside the palace from Di Yu before spread the word that the Huns have entered Jiuyuan City, and their spearhead is probably directly aimed at Di Yao, and the king has not received any news at all?" Sister 'Meng' Su and I have gathered the palace 'women' in the palace to take up arms and prepare to defend against the Huns who have infiltrated the palace! ”

"Oh?" Xiang Ye was stunned for a moment, and then remembered the civilians he saw on the path with abnormal behavior, but he knew that if he said this suspicion, it would definitely cause a 'commotion' and 'chaos', so he said to Xiang Qing: "I know about this matter, you and 'Meng' Su will all go back to the dormitory, and I will deal with it!" ”~