In July, Feng Zai stayed in Xianyang, and I took Sangong and Yujin, Baichong, and Ge Yue from Xianyang to Xingyang.

Even if they traveled lightly, it took nearly half a month for the group to arrive in Luoyang.

I looked up at the majestic Luoyang City in front of me, and couldn't help but sigh: "Muye Yangyang, Tanche Huanghuang, and Peng Peng." Master Wei, Shi Weiyingyang. Jiang Shangxing Zhou has been around for 800 years, but there have been 500 years of wars among the princes, is this really prosperous? ”

Li Siju was behind him, his eyes were a little unopen in the warm sun, and he squinted slightly: "Your Majesty, the monarch is the prosperity of the country, if you want to rely on one person to make the country prosperous for ten thousand years, this is also wrong." Five hundred years of war is not a bad thing, without five hundred years of strife, how can the world get rid of the feudal feud in the hands of the emperor and return to the county? These five hundred years are giving Great Qin the opportunity to cut off the root cause of the troubled times. Jiang Shang can be called a virtuous minister. ”

I smiled slightly: "What Li Xiang said is that Jiang Shang has both the cultural rule of Guan Zhong and the martial arts of Le Yi, so he can be called a virtuous." However, I have you civil and military generals in Daqin, and I will not be weaker than Zhou, and I am just the beginning. ”

"Your Majesty has praised it."

"Let's go." As the car drove into Luoyang City, I thought of Jiuding again, and asked curiously: "Where did Jiuding go?" ”

Li Si was a little stunned, and said carefully: "Your Majesty doesn't know? ”

"Well, I was too young to remember."

Fusu's memory is not very clear, and he often can't remember such trivial things.

Li Si nodded and didn't say anything more, and said: "Jiuding has been in Luoyang for hundreds of years, first died in King Zhou Ai, and finally died in King Zhou Kao. ”

I know these three brothers, King Zhou Ai, King Zhou Si, and King Zhou Kao are the three sons of King Zhou Zhending, King Zhou Ai was usurped by his brother King Zhou Si killed his brother three months after he ascended the throne, and King Zhou Si was usurped by his brother King Zhou Kao five months later, and he was stabilized in the hands of King Zhou Kao.

What do you mean by that? Jiuding has a relationship with all three of them? ”

"Your Majesty is wise, when King Zhou Ai ascended the throne, the Zhou royal family had already existed in name only, only a hundred miles of Zhou Wangji, but the number of Zhou royal family is quite a lot, only those Zhou people can not feed the royal family, and Zhou Wangji also has a thousand kings, at that time Zhou Ai was so poor that he couldn't even afford to eat corn, so he started the idea of Jiuding, and melted three of the nine tripods into copper water and minted coins."

King Zhou Siwang thought that Jiuding was the national fortune of the Zhou Dynasty, and King Zhou Ai destroyed Jiuding and would bury the national fortune of the Zhou Dynasty, so with the support of the royal family, King Zhou Ai, who had only been for three months, killed himself and became the son of Zhou Tianzi. But this Zhou Siwang was also mediocre, and after he ascended the throne, he knew that Zhou Wangji couldn't even afford to eat, so he followed his brother and melted Sanding. ”

This completely angered the old people of the royal family, and instigated King Zhou Kao to kill King Zhou Si, and King Zhou Kao became the son of Zhou Tianzi. After the king of Zhou Kao ascended the throne, he thought that Jiuding had been destroyed and six tripods, if the princes of the world knew, they would think that the luck of the Zhou Dynasty had been exhausted, and I am afraid that Zhou Wangji would no longer exist, so the remaining three tripods were also melted, and the nine tripods were declared to be hidden in a secret place, and the Zhou Dynasty would reappear when it was prosperous. ”

After listening to Li Si's eloquent narration, I was curious: "Since this is the case, this matter must be very secretive, how did Li Xiang know so clearly?" ”

Li Si is the old god: "After King Zhou Kao ascended the throne, he was afraid that the only remaining Ji Jie, the only one of his four brothers, would threaten him again, so he sealed Ji Jie's position in Henan to attack the Duke of Zhou, and the Zhou Dynasty was divided into the Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Zhou Kingdom since then, the fifty-first year of King Qin Zhaoxiang Zhou Dynasty died at the hands of King Zhaoxiang, and the Eastern Zhou Kingdom died in the hands of Lu Buwei in the first year of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang, and the Zhou Dynasty ended in Great Qin, and some things are naturally known more clearly. ”

I was just about to praise Li Si for knowing these things by heart, but I didn't expect Li Si to continue: "Of course, some are also speculative. ”

I was speechless for a moment, and suddenly came back to my senses and asked, "No, the Heavenly Ancestor also came to Luoyang to raise the crown?" If the Zhou Kao Wang Shiding is gone, what will the ancestor raise that day? ”

King Wu of Qin died in a desperate manner, but there are historical records.

Li Si shook his head and sighed lightly: "At that time, the prestige of Great Qin was beginning to appear, and King Wu was young and vigorous, King Zhou was extremely frightened when he heard that King Wu was going to come to Luoyang to see Ding, for fear that King Wu would not see Ding and directly destroy Zhou Wangji in anger, so he ordered someone to cast a hollow dragon Wen Chiding in the hope of fooling the past. ”

"Hollow Longwen Chiding? Then how could it stone the Heavenly Ancestor to death? I heard that Tianzu also often plays with those wrestlers in Xianyang, so he can't even lift a hollow tripod. ”

"Your Majesty is wise, even if the Longwen Chiding is the Jiuding handed down by Dayu, the King of Wu may be able to lift it, but that King Zhou was afraid that the King of Wu would perceive the clue from the weight, so he injected something into it, making the weight of Longwen Chiding far exceed that of the copper tripod. It is said that King Zhaoxiang ordered no one to mention this tripod again, and no one knows the truth anymore. ”

I nodded, combined with the technology of this era, it should be injected with mercury, the density of mercury is almost twice as large as copper, if a copper shell is filled with mercury, it makes sense that Yingdang was stoned to death, but it is enough to show that Yingdang's divine power is rare in the world.

The two of them didn't say anything, I opened the curtain and looked out for a while, and muttered: "Today's Luoyang has not seen the decline of Zhou Tianzi, but there is still a gap compared to other counties, what does Li Xiang think of Luoyang?" ”

Li Si can now almost guess my thoughts, and when he heard the words, he said: "If Your Majesty refers to Luoyang as an important place to the east, it is not impossible, here is surrounded by mountains and rivers, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is a traffic rush, but Luoyang and Xianyang are separated by Hangu Pass, and it is a one-day journey from Xingyang, the east is not connected to the Sichuan River Canal, and the west is not connected to the national capital Xianyang, dredging Luoshui and Deshui may not be a matter of day and night." ”

I agreed: "Yes, the location of Luoyang is very good, but the premise is that the land route is smooth, and the reason why the Wuguan Road was built from Lantian to the south instead of passing through Luoyang to Sanchuan County should also be because of the mountain range." However, I already have an idea, this time I went to Xingyang, one is for the navigation of the Sichuan River Canal, and the other is to see how the wooden track is! ”

Li Si's reaction was very fast, and he muttered: "Your Majesty means to rely on that wooden track to connect Xianyang-Luoyang-Xingyang?" ”

"Not bad. Nanyang Iron Smelting Mansion is already trying to roll steel, but to be honest, I don't have much hope. I sighed softly and said, "Rolling steel is too difficult, and it is not something that can be made by a heaper, compared to which the musket is a child." If the wear and tear of the wooden track is within the tolerable range, even if the capacity is not satisfactory, it is still more than the carriage to carry something, and it is not a little faster. ”

Li Si nodded: "So when you arrive in Xingyang tomorrow, you will know with your own eyes." ”

I hummed and looked up: "The front is the palace, rest today, and set off tomorrow." ”