Moreover, behind the Fang Shi are sorcerers who have been inherited for nearly a thousand years, inherited in witchcraft divination and astrological techniques, and even had special official positions in the Zhou Dynasty.

Nowadays, every monarch has a sorcerer by his side. They divined good fortune and evil, observed astrological meteorology, predicted the outcome of the war, and decided the time to start the war.

The magician was born out of witchcraft, and according to the needs of the nobles, he ate the six qi, visited the immortals, and took medicine for alchemy, seeking immortality.

During the reign of King Qin Huiwen, the Qin and Chu wars, and King Qin Huiwen also specially found a sorcerer to curse. Because of its location outside the Guan, the Qin State was the country where witchcraft was most prevalent.

Therefore, as soon as the warlocks came to the Qin State, even if the King of Qin was suspicious of alchemy, he treated them favorably.

Now that the Warring States period is coming to an end, the Mohists, peasants and other schools of thought have declined, and they have basically ceased to carry out political activities, and have been completely domesticated by the monarch and gradually become "technical jobs".

The Fang Shi faction is at its peak. If it weren't for the fact that they had no political ideas and only sought wealth and nobility, I am afraid that they would be among the ranks of Confucianism and Taoism.

Although the students all admired Zhu Xianggong, how could Zhu Xianggong declare war with an entire Fangshi school alone?

They have doubts and expectations in their hearts.

There's nothing more exciting than going it alone against thousands of troops.

The blackboard is set up, and the laboratory table is set up.

Zhu Xiang led a group of Qin soldiers to the high platform, hunting in ink clothes, white as snow, like the legendary crane with a childish face.

He did not make a stirring remark to rebuke the absurdity of Fangshi, as the students had in their minds.

He also ignored the words of the priest, and only urged the other party to come up with a unique skill that could show his ability.

Although it was only a few days, the alchemists were already ready.

Their representatives took the stage one by one to show Zhu Xiang the strange skills they had gained from searching for the immortal gods.

They make fires out of thin air; Zhu Xiang also lit a fire out of thin air;

They put the spell into the water, revealing the words; Zhu Xiang put a blank paper into the water and a landscape map emerged;

They condense into ice floes and summon white mist; Zhu Xiang wrote the steps on the blackboard, and Ying Xiaozheng played a game of freezing ice, and then poured jam on the semi-soft ice and put it in his mouth;

They began to panic, gritted their teeth and took out a little stone into gold and a golden pill that would change colors; Zhu Xiang used iron smelting bronze as an example to teach them how to smelt gold and silver, and what kind of color changes will occur when various metals react with each other.

Zhu Xiang said: "You can find a craftsman at random to know this." ”

Zhu Xiang asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

Fang Shi's face turned pale, and he wanted to refute it. But Zhu Xiang didn't argue with them, only let them show their real skills. Under the watchful eye of the Qin soldiers, in the onlookers of the nobles, students, and even the civilians of Xianyang City, they didn't even have enough breath to make their voices.

"None?" Zhu Xiang said, "I still have it." ”

He lit the Kong Ming lantern - it should be the Zhu Xiang lantern now. The paper lamp slowly floated into the air, and he explained the principle of levitation to the audience.

He ordered a few students to come to the stage, redid the experiments he had done, and had them copy the Fang Shi's tricks;

He explained the flame reaction, and used black powder to create a "thunderbolt" that was difficult for even the monks to copy, and then made the first fireworks, wishing the King of Qin a long life and the prosperity of the Qin State forever;

He also brought up a few chickens, ducks and rabbits to the stage, talked about the control experiments on alchemy materials such as dansha, and asked the imperial doctor and the folk traveling doctor to come to the stage to observe whether the symptoms were the same as the symptoms he said, and whether he had received patients with the same symptoms;

Unafraid of the expressions of the priests and the imperial doctors, he said that the boys' urine was useless, and they could do their own experiments. In the same way, human flesh and blood are useless, and if you eat too much, you will get madness. This is the law of biological evolution in nature to avoid cannibalism......

Zhu Xiang held the whip in his hand, talking eloquently as if he had once stood in a university classroom.

There was no debate with anyone, no exciting words, he just stood on the three-foot podium like in the previous life, facing the students to impart his knowledge.

King Qin held his chin with one hand, and the fingers of the other hand tapped lightly on his knee.

He clearly said that he would let the crown prince supervise the country and rest by himself, but he still sat in the stands.

"Spread the reason for Zhu Xiang's anger." King Qin said calmly, "It is rumored among the Fang Shi to use the boy to make alchemy, Zhu Xiang was angered and determined to destroy the Fang Shi Dao system. ”

"Yui."

The King of Qin said again: "Expelle this group of monks from the Qin State." Passing on the edict of the widow, the king of Qin did not believe in the art of immortality. ”

"Yui!"

"What is a fairy god?" Zhu Xiang looked at the sun for a moment and ended his lecture, "Is it the immortal god who drills wood to make fire?" Is it the fairy god who tastes the herbs? Is it the fairy god who controls the water? If the immortal gods don't care about natural disasters and man-made disasters, they just give immortality to the rich and noble, then this kind of immortal god should still be killed. ”

He threw away the chalk.

"In the future, if there is a monk who claims to have immortal arts, please ask that monk to enter Qin to find me."

"If he doesn't dare to come to me, immortal magic is a deception."

He ordered someone to light the paper lanterns, and the paper lamps flew into the dusk sky one by one, dotted with stars, like fireflies.

Even the priests looked up, looking awe and amazement.

"If there is an immortal god, I am afraid that I am the person who is rumored to be the closest to the immortal god in the world." Before Zhu Xiang left, the other party said, "No matter how I struggled in Zhao State, I didn't save Li Min's common people, my black hair turned white, and I could only curse the king in my heart for being mediocre and unthinkable." ”

"Do you think I look like a fairy?"

Zhu Xiang took off the hairpin, and his white hair was scattered.

"Don't attribute the self-salvation of the common people to the gifts of the immortals."

After that, Fang Shi left Qin and Zhu Xiang entered Shu.

The monarchs of the six countries were shaken and expelled Fang Shi from the palace one after another, but Fang Shi did not dare to curse Zhu Xiang.

Zhu Xiang exposed immortal arts, but they thought from the bottom of their hearts that Zhu Xiang was an immortal god.

Chapter 78: The First Emperor Roasts Whole Rabbits

The carriage babbled from Xianyang, from the Baochuan Road to Guanzhong, and then from the Jinniu Road to Chengdu.

After the King of Qin appointed Fan Ju as the prime minister, the plank road was built, which can pass the heavy chariots and horses of the army, and it is easier to walk; The so-called "Shu Road Difficulty" in later generations mainly lies in the section of Wuding Gorge of Jinniu Road, and the narrow place can only be passed by one person and one horse.

However, the Jinniu Road is not only through Wuding Gorge, the road from Yangping Pass to Jinshan Temple into the Sichuan boundary is wider and gentle, and when it reaches Baishui (Shazhou) to Zhaohua, it is integrated with another road. Large armies and caravans mainly took this route.

This road is a little farther away, so if you don't have too many baggage requirements, most of them take a section of Wuding Gorge.

Zhu Xiang took Ying Xiaozheng into Shu and naturally went to Yangpingguan. With the escort of the Qin army, there is no need to worry about the safety of the road.

Jianmen Pass is currently the only pass that can be passed by a large army, Zhu Xiang is an official in Shu, not Shu, of course, he has to go to Jianmen Pass.

Because he was not in a hurry, Zhu Xiang was going to take Ying Xiaozheng to stay at Jianmen Pass for a few days, find someone to draw a few portraits, and check in as a tourist attraction.

Although it is now possible to stack cast iron into steel by repeated hammering, even if Zhu Xiang figured out the method of making steel in the clay blast furnace, there is still a big gap between the quality of the steel and the production of springs, and it is difficult to use the more convenient means of shock absorption for horse-drawn carriages.

However, the Mo family and Zhu Xiang pondered it together, and made a simple and crude shock absorbing device that was easy to damage out of linen cloth and cork, although it was very troublesome, and it could only be used for a few days before it would break. But Zhu Xiang can afford to spend this money now, and it is the most important thing to reduce the fatigue of Ying Xiaozheng's journey as much as possible.

Zhu Xiang also asked Ying Xiaozheng to weave a small hammock in the carriage with silk cloth strips, and Ying Xiaozheng could play in the hammock.

Ying Xiaozheng complained: "Uncle, do you treat Zheng'er as a baby? I'm six years old...... Well, according to my uncle, five years old! ”

Zhu Xiang was puzzled: "Is there a difference between a five-year-old and a baby?" No. Come, Zheng'er, look at it, do you like this rattle? ”

Ying Xiaozheng turned the rattle twice with a blank face, and then threw the rattle on the seat.

At this moment, the First Emperor cub bear child possessed!

Zhu Xiang laughed.

Hearing Zhu Xiang's laughter, he didn't like to ride in a carriage, and Li Mu, who was riding on horseback, couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

Li Bing, who went to Bashu with Zhu Xiang to serve as the county guard this time, was curious: "Why is the general sighing?" ”

Li Mu said: "Zhu Xiang loves to tease Zheng'er. Now that the elders are all in Xianyang, no one controls Zhu Xiang, I am really worried that Zheng'er will be bullied too much by Zhu Xiang, and no one will support him. ”

Li Mu is very self-aware, he obviously can't help Ying Xiaozheng get ahead when Ying Xiaozheng was bullied by Zhu Xiang. He is stupid and can't speak; The face is also thin-skinned, so I'm embarrassed to say it, but I'll do it.

The corners of Li Bing's mouth twitched slightly. He had tried very hard to fit in with the group of Zhu Xianggong, Gongzizheng, and General Li Mu, but he still easily fell into an awkward silence and didn't know how to answer.

When Li Bing was observing how to integrate into Zhu Xiang and others, Zhu Xiang was also observing Li Bing, looking for an opportunity to "check in with historical celebrities".

After getting along for half a month, Zhu Xiang determined that Li Bing was a "sincere engineering man" who was more sleek in handling things, but more open-minded and had a very pragmatic personality, so he took the initiative to contact Li Bing.

Zhu Xiang used the excuse of official business and asked Li Bing how much he understood Shu County.

This time in Qin, although Li Bing was the county guard, the king of Qin specially told Li Bing to ask Zhu Xiang more about agricultural affairs, and let Li Mu show it militarily, if Zhu Xiang had to do something with a pat on his head one day, he must do what Zhu Xiang said.

"You can regard Zhu Xiang as a fake country." Although King Qin occasionally made suspicious mistakes, he was also very ruthless when it was time to delegate power.

He released Zhu Xiang this time, and he already regarded the land of Bashu as Zhu Xiang's fief in his heart. Zhu Xiang let it go, and he protected it in Xianyang.

Li Bing went to the post this time, and put himself in the position of deputy in his heart. Zhu Xiang's question, of course, he knew everything.

Zhu Xiang first inquired about the natural conditions of Bashu, such as hydrology, soil, vegetation, and special products.

Although more than 2,000 years is not enough time to change the natural features of Bashu, the subtle differences still have a great impact on farming.

Although Li Bing was going to Bashu for the first time, he was completely prepared, and before he came, he had visited many officials who had been to Bashu, and he had also looked for caravans to and from Bashu for advice.

Zhu Xiang took out a pen and paper, and compared the information he and Li Bing knew about each other, and their admiration for each other in this chat was increasing day by day.

Li Bing, as an ancient person with poor news, was able to do such detailed homework before going to work, Zhu Xiang sighed that the capable officials who left their names in history are really one in a million.

The Sichuan Basin was developed very early, and the climate and soil are similar to those in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, but because of the early development, the soil rating is much higher than that of Yangzhou and other places, and the products are abundant, and Shujin has a little fame.

But it's also a big problem.

Sichuan is rich in water veins, so the flood disaster is serious, and it is urgent to build water conservancy facilities;

The planting crops are still mainly millet and rice cultivation, and the planting method is relatively rough, which does not give full play to its geographical and climatic conditions.

Because of the hot and humid climate, malaria and various parasitic diseases caused by mosquitoes occur frequently, which is the most important epidemic in the Sichuan Basin, especially after the flood.

There are many barbarians in Shu, the language is slightly poor, and the customs are very different, and there are often conflicts with the government and the Qin people who immigrate;

Bashu is closed, there are few people who understand the law, and there is an extreme lack of grassroots officials, which leads to the issuance and implementation of government decrees are very difficult......

As Li Bing spoke, he talked about the natural conditions of Bashu to the government affairs and people's livelihood.

Zhu Xiang listened carefully and didn't put forward many opinions, only comforting Li Bing a few words at the right time.

He believes that Li Bing will definitely be more sophisticated than him in handling government affairs, and he does not need him to compare and make comparisons. Li Bing was only serving as a large county guard far from the center of the imperial court for the first time, and many worries had accumulated in his heart. At this time, Zhu Xiang only needs to be a good listener.

Sure enough, after Zhu Xiang listened to Li Bing's troubles once, Li Bing's mental state quickly improved.

Ying Xiaozheng fiddled with the rattle boredly and pouted. When I can get my uncle's super high affinity, it is estimated that there will be no shortage of talents.

Li Mu asked, "Zheng'er, don't you like rattles?" ”

Ying Xiaozheng shook the rattle expressionlessly: "But it's boring, there's nothing to do." ”